TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
not measured in terms of the months required to reach
Russia. but in terms of Pav1e's own consciousness.
Pav1e himse1f is the measure Of duration of the action.
in which the successive stases me1t one into the other
in a manner akin to Berssonian notions of pure duration.
The authoria1 voice treats time as an open structure
throush which it can move free1v and revea1 time.as
measured bv the emotiona1 intensitv fe1t bV the
characters. Thus. for Pav1e his ~ournev is a sins1e
moment. his break for freedom.
The novel has been shown to incorporate so rar
three narratins voices which construct different
temporal schemes throush which the events of the novel
are narrated: the chronic1er. author. and historian.
Linear succession. the mu1tiplicitv of the human
dimension of time. and the cohesion or a historica1
period considered as a sinsle unit. are a11 different
wavs of conceivins the temporal relationships of
succession and duration.
At the same time thev are also
creative orders. u1timate1v expressins ide010cical and
ethical positions as culturallv informed wavs of
represent ins the re1ationships between past, present,
and future.
The relationship of characters to these
time schemes. and the extent to which thev are seen to
act as acents or action. express a re1ationship between
the individual and historv.
Thus time is tranSformed
from a purelv svmbo1ic order, the matrix of events, into
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