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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER FOUR<br />

countrv where he has lived ~or<br />

some time.<br />

These isolated words are complemented bV loncer<br />

phrases. One dav Rjepnin i •• ittinc in the park when he<br />

notices a vouth close bV and i. .tartled when the boV<br />

asks him the time:<br />

Polto se u tom parku Svetoc Jakova. ~uje<br />

sat sa tornja Parlamenta. junak nalec<br />

romana pomisli: ato me pita9 Zatim<br />

odeovara. "Ra mom je .atu prollo pola<br />

dva." "It'. hal~ past one bV mv watch."<br />

De~ko mu u~tivo kale: hvala.<br />

Tek da nelto doda. junak nalec<br />

romana. dodaje. "Molda vam se luri9"<br />

"Are vou in a hurrv9" (42).<br />

Since the clock on the tower o~ the<br />

Parliament buildinc can be clearlv heard<br />

~rom Saint James' park. the hero o~ our<br />

novel thinks: WhV is he askinc me9 Then<br />

he answers. "It's turned hal~ past one bV<br />

·mv watch." "It's hal~ past one b¥ mv<br />

watch." The vouth politelv savs to him<br />

thanks.<br />

Just to add somethine the hero o~<br />

our novel adds. "Seems vou're in a hurrv9"<br />

"Are ¥ou in a hurr;y9"<br />

The prince ~irst<br />

wonders whv the boV is askine when he<br />

can hear the clock chiminc.Then the repl;y in<br />

Serbo-Croat is .iven idiomaticallv as a little a~ter<br />

h.l~-past<br />

one. but the phrase in Enelish savs preciselv<br />

"hal~-past one". as i~ spoken bv someone who to himsel~<br />

u.es an idiomatic phrase which i. more e •• ilv rendered<br />

into the ~oreien l.neuaee bv roundine the ~icures to the<br />

neare~t division. A similar ef~ect is .iven in the<br />

second paracraph. The que.tion "Molda vam se luri9" i.<br />

delivered with some hesitation and indirectnes.. The<br />

inclu.iono~<br />

"molda" indioate. a .transer askine a<br />

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