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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER FOUR<br />

anal~sis<br />

has shown that there are instances where the<br />

third person narration is conducted b~<br />

the prince<br />

himsel~. Rjepnin re~ers to himsel~ as i~ he were the<br />

witness and not the victim o~ events. This t~pe o~<br />

narration reveals the prince to be distanced ~rom<br />

his<br />

sel~, and ~rom the chanees which time has broueht.<br />

As a eeneral conclusion to Part Two, this anal~sis<br />

o~ Crn;Janski's novels has shown him to be a writer who<br />

dislocates the sequence o~ events ~rom anN necessarN<br />

causal connection. His characters act as creators o~<br />

temporal schemes, interactine with other impersonal<br />

narrators. Such a presentation o~ time in his novels is<br />

embedded in the t~pe o~ lancuace and narrative<br />

structures which he uses. This is characteristic o~ his<br />

•<br />

sumatraist st~le. His use o~ ~raemented sentence<br />

structures and sNntax is desiened to enhance particular<br />

experiences o~ time. Xn his ~inal two novels, Crnjanski<br />

continues to use laneuace in a similar w~.<br />

but it is in<br />

his arrancement o~ voice that thev ~ind compositional<br />

coherencv. The di~~erent voices narrate events with<br />

di~~erent orders o~ duration and succession. and are<br />

placed in di~~erent<br />

temporal relationships to the events<br />

beine described.<br />

Xn all. the characters pl~ an active<br />

part in the construction o~<br />

time schemes in Crnjanski's<br />

novels.<br />

Time is revealed throueh their contrastine<br />

perspectives on the sequence and duration o~<br />

events.<br />

Xn his two earlv ess~s,<br />

"Objalnjenje 'Sumatre'"<br />

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