TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
Rjepnin's own narration o~ the scene is rein~orced by
the chan~e o~ tense and the l1n~uist1c trans~ress10ns.
To compare with the second part o~
the novel. there is
hardly any synchronic narration in the episode when
Rjepnin &oes on holiday to Cornwall. Most o~ the verbs
are in the past tense.
The narrator takes on the task
o~ retrospective narration. On his return ~rom Cornwall
when tensions a~ain
build uP. there is a more ~requent
use o~
synchronic narration. and an emphasis on the
prince' a mental torment.,
There are occasiona on which speech marks are
omitted ~rom
the text althouch the tense structures and
the persons o~ the verb indicate direct dialo~ue between
the prince and his wi~e.
Their apeech is not always
marked as distinct ~rom the descriPtive scenes o~ the
text. equatinc their voices with the narrator's. Such
instances are more ~requent in the last part o~ the
novel. In the ~inal pa~es the prince visits the
American Embassy 'to ask that his wi~e
be allowed to stay
with her aunt. In this scene a ~irst person pronoun is
introduced I
On misli (I think) da. od zemlje
prezidenta Linkolna. ne bi bilo lepo. da
jednu lenu. proteraju. aamo zato. Ito ima
intri&a. raznih emi&ranata. i
emicrantskih komiteta. koji ni~u. sad.
kao pe~urke. i sa jedne. i sa dru~e.
strane okeana (a5).
" He thinks (I think) that it would not
be a&reeable ~or the country o~ President
Lincoln to expel a , woman. just