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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER FOUR<br />

second novel ~alls on the di~~erences between individual<br />

and institutional concepts o~<br />

time and historv. and the<br />

dialectic between sel~<br />

and historv.<br />

Roman 0<br />

Londonu<br />

Crnjanski's last novel. Roman 0<br />

Londonu. was<br />

published in 1971 althouch its cenesis coes back to his<br />

earlier davs as an 6micr' in London.<br />

It contains manv<br />

structural and thematic ~eatures<br />

with respect to time<br />

which echo the other novels.<br />

Voice is an important<br />

element in this novel. as in Druca knjica seoba.<br />

The<br />

compositional desicn o~<br />

his last novel is based on the<br />

contrast between the voice o~<br />

an impersonal narrator.<br />

and the voices or the main character.<br />

These latter<br />

voices are those o~<br />

the main character as narrator. and<br />

others which are presented in the text as i~<br />

thev were<br />

the voices o~<br />

characters. althouch thev are all in the<br />

main character's mind. Thev"represent aspects o~ his<br />

hopes and ~ears ~or the future and what has happened to<br />

him in the past.<br />

Thev are civen creater substance bV<br />

his frequent recollections from his past.<br />

To a certain<br />

decree the focus on one character in this ~ashion<br />

re.emble. Crnjan.ki's ~irstnovel Dnevnik 0<br />

earnojevi6u.<br />

The distinction lies in the presentation<br />

o~ an identi~ied main,oharacter in the last novel. the<br />

Russian 6micr' Prince Nikolaj Rod1onovi~<br />

Rjepn1n.<br />

Rjepnin is not the author of a diarv. but the<br />

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