TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
happiness which e~uded
him in his marriaee and in the
service o~ the Habsbure Empire. He never rea~ised his
dream. Hi. nephews and his adopted son. Pav~e Isakovia.
continue to dream o~
emieratine to Russia in Druea
knji,a seoba. The nove~ has o~ten been described a.
epic (2). However. a~thoueh there are man¥ epic
~eatures
in the work. there are others which counter
them.
The distinction between the epic and non-epic
~eatures is here considered as the e~~ects o~ the
narratine voice.. which is particularl¥ evident in the
novel'. oreanisation o~
time.
The events o~ the nove~ are not contained in one
uni~¥in, tempora~ model. There are ~our narratin,
voices which or,anise the event. o~ the nove~ accordine
to the de.ien. o~ di~~erent time schemes. The¥ are here
termed the chronic~e. authorial. hi.torica~ and epic
voice..
These term. are appropriate to the ,eneral
ftunction o~
each voice as a narrati v.e device in
Crnjanski'. novel.
The chronicle voice narrates events
in their linear .eQuence.
The authorial voice narrate.
event. ~rom the point oft view o~ the characters. The
hi.torical voice is concerned with the hi.torical and
political details and causes which surround events.
The
epic voice_repre.ents a sp.ci~ic
vi.w oft time expr •••• d
b¥ Pavle Isakovil. Th.¥ are distincuished one ftrom the
other b¥ the tempora~ laps which separate them ~rom the
events which the¥ relate. Bach voice a180 introduces a
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