TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER POUR
structure of events, hichlichtinc some events as more
sicnificant then others, and anticipatinc an end to his
trials with his arrival in Russia •. Pavle's resolve to
emicrate and the trials he has to face on his journeys
in order to realise his aim introduce an ethical
imperative.
The isolated points in time charted by the
chronicle voice are contrasted with Pavle's perspective
which is represented b¥ the authorial voice.
The presentation of time as a linear sequence with
no recard for character· perspective is modified b¥ the
authorial voice.
The authorial voice in Druca knjica
seoba is characterised b¥ its presentation of the
points of view of the Isakovi~ family. Chapter Five
opens.
Po pri~i Isakovi~a sude6i, njecovi
bratenci stekli su utisak, posle, da
familija Bo!i~ nije onakva, kakve su bile
porodice njihovih sunarodnika, koje su,
ranije, poznavali (13).
Judcinc b¥ what Isakovi~ said, his
cousins cained the impression,
subsequently, that the Bo!i~ family was
not like the other families of their
fellow countrymen whom they had known
earlier.
The action specified in this quotation, what Pavle savs
concern inc the B~!i~
family, takes place at a pOint
.later in the story than the text has reached b¥ this
stace.
What Pavle savs has resonances for the familY
from a point before 1152 when the novel opens.
The
authorial voice has no fixed point in time from which it
narrates, since it can relate what the cousins are