TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
them a~ter
his return to London, even havins an a~~air
with one. In the third part, ~ollowins his return to
London, he loses his job, has di~~iculties
with his new
~riends, and persuades his wi~e to so to America where
she has an aunt who is willine to help.
They plan that
Na4a will prepare the way ~or
him to join her later, and
that they will besin a new li~e toeether. In his
isolation the prince decides not to join Na4a. and
care~ullY lays plans to take his own li~e. He commits
suicide on the last pase o~
the novel.
The impersonal narrator in the ~irst part o~ the
novel contrasts with the voices o~ Rjepnin. However, in
the second part-the impersonal narrator dominates.
It
is this narrator who "maintains a clear distance ~rom
the prince", as Prali6 comments.
He decribes the scenes
o~ action. When narratine ~rom the point o~ view o~ the
prince,. he maintains a.position which is external to the
prince.
In Cornwall, the prince is at his most relaxed,
his economio pressures have eased, and there are ~ew
instanoes itl which the prince questions his past and
present •. In the third part o~
narrator is eradually e~~aoed
the novel the'impersonal
until the text is
dominated by the prinoe himsel~.
The voices assooiated
with the prince reveal his hopes and ~ears
more
immediately, re~leotine
his erowine psyoholoeioal
disturbance. ,The distinotion between the impersonal
narrator and the prinoe's own voices oan be racoenised
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