TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
"Madlarska". but is reoo&:nisable as a Latin root found
for example in the term "austro-u&:arski"
(Austro-Hun&:arian).
This results in a de&:ree of
estran&:ement whioh is eohoed in the rest of the text
when Crnjanski uses arohaio forms.
The tendenoy towards
inverted sentenoe struoture evokes the arohetypal
story-teller. or sin&:er of epio ballads.
Suoh narrative
strate&:ies evoke the "absolute epio distanoe that
separates the epio world from oontemporary realit~" (19)
desoribed bv Bakhtin as the &:ap between the time of the
events desoribed and the time of their narration.
Bakhtin oontinues to insist on the "national epio past"
and "national tradition" as the "subjeot" and "souroe"
for the epio (20).
These other two oonstitutive
features identified bV Bakhtin oonfirm the openin&: voioe
as epio sinoe they oorrespondto the subjeot matter of
the novel.
The epio oonsoiousness of time as felt and
expressed by Pavle and his oousins oontrasts with the
other voioes. The familv. most o~ten throu&:h Pavle. see
and think of themselves in historv as indivisible ~rom
their national identitv.
To return to the episode of
Pavle's interview at the Russian embassv. his first
response when asked by Volkov why he wishes to emi&:rate
is desoribed thus:
Isakovi~ se onda tr!e i pro&:ovori • pa
poae da pri~a. kako su Serbi. ,na Kosovu.
oarstvo iz&:ubili. kako .:fe oar Lazar
po&:inuo. ali MiloA rasporio Murata i kako
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