TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
this discussion on the use and meanin~s
of the term
Romanticism and ~vric in Crnjanski's work. The first is
that Crnjanski's affinitv with Romanticism and the ~vric
have unfair~v
intruded on discussion of time in his
nove~s. Romanticism was a historica~ period in which
poetrv was the dominant ~enre.
an"d Crnjanski' s first
reputation was as a poet. His nove~s tend to be
described as lvrical or poetic. as" described bv Petkovi6
and Zori6 in the introduction to this chapter. and it
has lon~
been accepted that such novels transcend
temporal orderin~:
A lvrica~ nove~ assumes a unique form
which transcends the causal and temporal
movement of narrative within the framework
of fiction. It is a hvbrid cenre that
uses the novel to approach the function
of a poem. Not surprisin~lv. the
expectations of a reader who has been
brou~ht UP on more traditiona~ standards
for· the novel are often frustrated. for
the.svmbolic patterns he encounters seem
to him antithetica~ to the verv method on
which narrative is bui~t (62).
ConseQuentlv, his novels are discussed with little
reference to time.
The second is that there exists a
tension in Crnjanski's work between two approaches to
time and historv. both of which are evident in European
modernism cenerally.
His futuristio vision of abrupt
chance in sensibilitv whioh he expressed in "ObjaAnjenje
•
'Sumatre'" corresponds to what PocCiolidescribes as "a
construction of the present and future not on the
foundations of the past but on the ruins of time", whi~e
Crnjanski's ~ater
acknowledcement of the affinitv
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