TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
him with her starine e~es fi11ed with
tears. It was the 1ast thine which
remained in his memor~ from Temilvar when
the horses jerked and the carriaee moved
off.
Podne je bi10 davno prol10 i Sunce je
po~e10 da si1azi na ravan Dnjepra (8).
Midd~ had 10ne since passed and the Sun
beean to set on the surface of the
Dnieper.
Some critics have considered the episodic structure of
the nove1 to be a sien of poor construction (9).
However. the tempora1 markers at the beeinnines of
chapters indicate the presence of different narratinc
voices. and are part of the nove1's overa11 desien.
The chronic1e voice opens each of the six chapters
which re1ate Pav1e's journe~s
around the Habsbure Empire
on beha1f of the Russian embass~.
The voice charts the
1inear procression of time. B~ becinnine each chapter
in the sequence at the point where the previous one
finished. it specifies Pav1e's movements on his trave1s.
The chapters open in the followine w~s:
Chapter
Eleven -
Twelve -
Pavle to co to Srem on 11 Aueust; Chapter
Pav1e is returnine to Temilvar towards the end
of Aueust 1752; Chapter Thirteen -Pavle remains in
Temilvar to the end of Aueust; Chapter Fourteen -
Pavle
sets off to Osek on 1 September; Chapter Fifteen -
Pav1e arrives in Graz from Osek on 10 September: Chapter
Sixteen -
Pavle returns to Vienna to receive a passport
for Russia in autumn 1752.
Each part of Pav1e's journev
is introduced in a w~ which is characteristic of the
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