TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
Voice. in this context. refers to various levels of
speech. discourse and laneuaee.
On one level voice is
represented in the fictional voices of the characters.
In direct and indirect speech the characters express the
values which the~
hold. and their consequent views on
the causes which underl¥ the events which the~
experience.
In Seobe this use of character point of
view was countered b~
the voice of the observernarrator.
In Druea kn4iea seoba there is more than
one impersonal narrator. and each of them places the
relationships between events. and between events and
characters in different temporal desiens. In Roman 0
Londonu the different voices which narrate the novel
are lareel¥ connected with the main character himself.
as aapects of his disturbed pavche. Orn~anski'a final
novel. in terms of its narrative oreanisation with
reapect to voice. displ~s
some affinites with Dnevnik
o earno~evi6u.
but produces different effects and
results.
In his later phase. the tension deepens
between his principles of s1multaneit~
and rhvthm. as
expressions of continuitv and chance.
Druea kn~iea
seoba
Druea kn~iaa
seob. i8 a novel which continues the
familv saaa of the Isakoviles beeun in Seobe.
Vuk
Isakov1~
had a dream that one d~ he would emierate to
Russia. and in Russia he would find the peace and
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