TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FIVE
pointlessness ~rew
parallel with the unavoidable inner
need o~ the man to de~end himsel~" 53). On the one
hand. Carnojevi6 creates Raji6 who represents the
repressed past. and on the other hand. he creates the
sailor who represents a potential wav out o~
the
impasse.
The sailor represents what Raji6 was not and
could not be. an alternative bein~-in-time
in which the
traces o~
the diarist's repressed psvche aChieve a new
si~ni~icance.
However. the sailor onlv ever remains potential.
The dream closes and-the text returns to the diarist.
who is cau~ht between the insu~~iciencv in li~e embodied
in Raji6 of a repressed past. and an anticipation in the
sailor o~ a potential p~esent and future. Carnojevi6's
writin~ o~ his diarv has itself been an exercise in
rehearsin~ the meanin~ of beinC-in-time. The diarv's
lack of temporal markers to indicate when and over what
period it was written is countered bV this emphasis on
time. Throu~h his writin~ of his self in memorv and in
dream he has revealed "time as a function of the
internal structure of consciousness" (Sa).
Raji6 and
the sailor are products of his creation. representations
of his psvche in memorv. and on a transcendental plane.
The lack of a Unified subject as the expression of
consciousness. also leads to the-conclusion that time is
not a unified structure. but is split amoncst the
various personae assumed bv the eco.
The diarist opens
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