TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SEVEN
oriein, linked to but not equal to all previous moments.
Rh~thm
is a vital process which links toeether what
would otherwise be the fraemented moments of
simultaneit~,
reformulatinc the past in terms of the
present. Rh~thm introduces a sense of historical
thinkine into Crnjanski's simultaneitv.
The complexit~
of Crnjanski's outlook on time
beeins with his use of laneuace.
In Chapter Three we
examined wavs in which he transeresses the normative
rules of s~ntax
bv, for example, delavine or omittine
verbs, and usine lancuaee more common to the spoken
rather than the written variant.
BV these and other
means he breaks the link between time as the index of
chance and action as the expression of that chance,
reformulatinc the representation of time as an
expression of characters and narratine voices.
The
temporal oreanisation of Dnevik 0
Carnojevi6u is a
reflection of the diarist's consciousness, one feature
of which is the belief that all action is useless since
ever~thinc
is ultimatelv confined to an irrecoverable
past.
Hence, Raji6, as the personification of the
diarist in memor~
never surfaoes in the present of
writine. The sicnlfloanoe of the diarist's memor~ is
Xtepressed.
Yuk, Dafina and Arand'el in Seobe oonsider
the past of the1r~~elationships from ver~ different
perspectives. and with differen·t aims for the future.
Time is not presented as a total struoture.
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