TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FIVE
heart of Rjepnin's psvchotic disorder. as he considers
that "Postoje, dakle. dva sveta, i za nje~a. - kao
svako~. - java i san. ali •• ta je jedno. a .ta druco.
niko jo. ne zna. Ni on" ("There exist. then. two
worlds for him too. as for evervone. wakinc and dream.
but. which is one and which is the other no-one knows.
Not even he" 95).
He comes to this conclusion while on
the train to Cornwall.
is combined in Roman 0
The motir of journev. of search,
Londonu with the motif of the
sta~e
set. The whole structure of the novel provides
two contexts to Rjepnin's storv.
He is the character
inside a storv who is observed bv a narrator. and he is
also the narrator who witnesses his own fate.
The novel
has two frames. one is set in the diachronic narration
of the third-person narrator.
This is the dominant
frame.
However. the second frame for the work is the
one establishedbv Rjepnin himself as the narrator. with
svnchronic narration.
The character becomes the witness
to and actor in his own fate.
In one episode. the
effect achieved bV this shift of frame is parodied:
Junak na.e~ romana onda podse6a ~enu. da
su oni Nelsona ~ak i videli. Ne ~ivo~.
razume set - ne80 onakvo~. kakVo~ ~a je
o!iveo encleski. filmski. ~lumac. koji je
bio u to vreme. ~uven. Leslie Howard.
Prilikom neke sve~anosti. na stepenicama
crkve koja se zove Sveti Pavle. !£.
paul's. taj ~lumac je predstavljao
admirala. Da 11 se s86a kako su stajal'!.
kao oma4ijani? einilo se da je to.
zaista. o~iveo Nelson (96).
The hero of our novel then reminds h'!s
wife that thev have even seen Nelson.
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