TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
Novom Sadu. izc~eda da je Pav~e bio u
TemiMvaru. do pos~edn~ih dana avcusta.
codine 1752 (4).
Accordinc to a ~etter of Pav~e's sick~y
re~ative. ~ieutenant lsak lsakovi~ in
Novi Sad. it appears that Pav~e remained
in Temilvar unti~ the ~ast days of
Aucust. 1752.
Pomenute codine. u subotu. uo~i
Krstopok~one nedelje. na dan 42 mu~enika
u Amorej i. po~eo je bio ( •.•• ) parad (5).
Durinc the aforementioned veal'. one
Saturday. on the eve of the third Sunday
after Easter. on the day of the 42
martyrs of Amurru. there had be.un ( ••• )
a parade.
Each new chapter indicates a potentia~~y
new becinninc.
invested with a site of oricin for the action to be
narrated in that chapter.
This episodic structure is
enhanced by the pattern which emerces at the close of
eaoh ohapter and so frames and separates one from the
other.
The ends of ohapters foous on the arrival or
departure of a oharacter. usua~~v
Pavle. or the soene is
described as takinc plaoe at.nichtfal~.
Each chapter
finishes either by the oompletion of an aotion. arriva~
at or departUre from a p~ace.
or is broucht to a c~ose
at the natura~ end of the day. The end of the first
examp~e
quoted above is a scene set at nicht (6), whi~e
the other two respective~y
tin ish thusl
Molda ca i ni~e viMe videla. ali se Pav~u
u~ini da ca c~eda rasroca~enim o~ima i sa
suzama. To ~e bilo pos~ednje Mto mu
ostade U se6an3u. is TemiMvara. kad su
kon3i trcli. i kola polla (7).
Perhaps she cou~d no ~oncer see him. but
it seemed to Pavl. that she was watchinc
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