TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
symbols of the sta~ and of Russia as a p~omised land do
fi~u~e.
The tensions which evolve between the diffe~ent
voices is of ~~eater si~nificance in structu~in~ time in
this second novel. The ch~onicle, autho~ial,
histo~ical, and epic voices as discussed in Chapte~ Four
of this study each link Pavle's sense of self to the
wide~ flow of social time and history in diffe~ent ways.
They cont~ibute va~iously to Pavle's sense of identity
and pu~pose.
In this section of the thesis the epic
voice is developed for its expression of a mvthic
concsciousness of time, which stands in contrast to the
psycholo~ical time exp~essed by the authorial voice
th~ou~h cha~acter point of view. Both these levels
cont~ast with the tempo~al o~de~ inhe~ent in the
histo~ical
voice.
Pavle Isakovi~ is facin~ a new historical epoch.
The re~iment in which he serves was c~eated by the
Aust~ians usin~ Se~bs who had fled their native land to
the south to escape Ottoman domination.
The reciment
defended the f~ontie~
and foucht the Turks, but times
have chan~ed: "V~eme ~atovima je p~ollo. Druk~iji ljudi
t~eba;lu
austri;tskom carstvll:" ("The time of the wars has
passed. Diffe~ent men are needed by the Austrian
Empire" 82); "Vremena rat ova bila su zauvek prolla"
- W
("The times of the wars ~ passed foreve~" 83). The
wars a~e
specifically those acainst the Tu~ks:
U to vreme, s~edinom XVIII veka, kad su
tu~ski ratovi nedavno bili zavrleni,
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