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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER FOUR<br />

one point that ".John ca ;Ie sad teAio" ("~ now<br />

com~orted him" 34). Barlov. Rjepnin and John are all<br />

associated with this invisible companion on the<br />

undercround.<br />

It is only in the openinc ~ew<br />

paces that the<br />

narrator is represented by the rirst person sincular.<br />

The attributes which distincuish .him ~rom<br />

the prince.<br />

inso~ar as he o~~ers him com~ort and walks him home. are<br />

later seen as part o~ the prince's consciousness~ The<br />

"I" and the "he" in the openinc paces are both<br />

rererences to the prince.<br />

The prince is a covert<br />

~irst-person narrator. The division o~ his personality<br />

is a ~unction<br />

or his distress at the poverty and<br />

anonymity or his 'micra status. expressed on the<br />

narrative level.<br />

The "I" is presented as the narrator<br />

and the "he" as the object or narration.<br />

But both<br />

subject and object are parts o~<br />

the same personality.<br />

now rraamented. a reature which oomes to dominate the<br />

novel.<br />

This type or narrative. ~rom<br />

the prince's<br />

consciousness. contrasts with those passaces dominated<br />

bV the impersonal narrator who o~ten<br />

sets the scene ror<br />

the action to ~ollow:<br />

Posle te duce eime. tako retke. i<br />

neobi~ne, u Londonu, - prole6e ;Ie bilo, u<br />

London. ipak sticlo, kao da ca je sunce<br />

na more probudilo. Korak po korak, du.<br />

reke Temee, prole6e ;Ie ulaeilo u<br />

Enclesku, - a u parkovima Londona<br />

pojavile se krokusi (35).<br />

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