TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
A~ter the lone winter. so rare and
unusual in London. sprine had
nevertheless arrive in London. as i~
woken b~ the sun on the sea. Step b~
step. sprine entered Eneland alone the
river Thames. and crocuses appeared in
the London parks.
In this quotation the impersonal narrator has even
adopted the bird's e~e
view similar to the position
a~~orded on occasion b~ the observer-narrator in
Seobe. The narrator has access to ever~thine which
the prince could know. and at times narrates
retrospectivel~,
lookine at the past throueh the
prince's e~es. and telline thines which onl~ he could
know:
To Ito je taj ruski emierant. to ve~e.
svojoj leni ispri~ao, nije bilo. sve. On
je bio zaista otilao u Ministarstvo rada
- majoru Gardneru - koji je razorulanim
Poljacima nalazio zaposlenja. On jet
zaista. tralio. tamo, rada. - i
manuelnoe. ma kakvoe rada. - ali nije
ispri~ao kako se to sve svrlilo (36).
What.that Russian 'mier6 told his wife
that evenine had not been ever~thine. He
had reall~ set o~~ to the Ministr~ of
Emplo~ment to see Major Gar~er. who
~ound emplo~ent ~or the demobbed Poles •
. He reall~ did look ~or work there. even
manual or an~ sort o~ work, but he did
not tell how it had all ended.
This omniscient narrator has access to the thouehts and
actions o~
all the characters. includine Rjepnin's wi~e.
but the balance of the tex.t is narrated e1 ther b~
Rjepnin or ~rom his point of view. The narrator refers
to J!ltjepn1n as "junak nalee romana" ("the hero of our
novel" 37). This phrase rein~orces the impression o~ an
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