TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
savina, thinkina and ~eelina
various points in the ~uture.
synchronically, and ~ro.
The te.poral aap between
the authorial voice and the events it narrate. is
characterised by an epistemoloaical link; in other
words, its authority rests on privileaed access to
in~or.ation
which the characters knew at some point.
'The authorial voice, narratina ~ro.
the characters'
point o~
view, not on1y disrupts tempora1 sequence, but
also interp01ates into the text the human dimension o~
time in which memory and anticipation both reside in the
present. At the beainnina o~ the nove1 Pavle is put in
prison eor his role in the disturbances in the Serbian
reaiments. A aeneral comment is made on the passace o~
time in the prison, such that "u tom zatvoru, apsenik bi
brzo nau~io kako je u .rtva~ko. sanduku, a izaubio bi i
po;lam 0 vre.enu" ("in the prison, the detainee wou1d
quickly learn what it is like in a co~~in.
and would
10se even his sense o~ ti.e" .. 14). However. Pav1e
retains a sense o~
time passina while in prison,
measured by his memories o~
recent events, and
particularly o~ the o~~icial ~ro. Vienna. Garsuli. who
ordered his arrest. Se then re~1ects
on his marriaae
and his wi~e who died more than a year previous1y whi1e
aivins bir~h prematurely. Time is net meas~red by
external eventa, and no indication is siven o~
hOW lona
he remains in si1ent contemplation.
But. Pav1e's
memories are a persena1history WhiCh. a1thouah they do
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