TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SEVEN
which Pavle feels isolated t~om value and the meanin~ of
his lite. Howeve~.
his epic consciousness of time
ofte~s him a sense ot unit~ between selt. natu~e.
societ~. and the nation. Chan~e is not acknowled~ed.
and past. present. and future a~e
linked in a sin~le
moment in which meanin~ is self-p~esent. His
intransient ima~e
of time is tounded on the national
m~th ot Kosovo. Pavle's search ·is for the eternal
~epetition ot this int~ansience ot bein~. which ~ejects
authentic bein~-in-time as becomin~. Pavle's two
approaches to time a~e not ~esolved. and he remains
divided between the culturallv shaped moment ot epic
consciousness. and the reco~nition ot chan~e in
PS~cholo~ical
Howeve~.
time.
Pavle is also described in the novel
b~ other narratin~ voices who cast him in difterent
roles. He is viewed a~ainst the chan~es in European
consciousness and cultu~eot the mid-ei~hte.nth centur~
and their intluence on him. Pavle is b.in~ forced to
abandon his Serbian identit~. and se~ve alien interests.
The immediate period ot the mid-ei~hteenth c.ntu~~ ~ives
w~ to. wider descriptions of the epoch as the be~innin~
ot the historical periOd which has led to tOd~ (19).
These broader spheres of historical time. tunction in
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parallel with the inner processes bv which Pavle
~eflect. on his bein~-in-time. Thev are in tension. and
cannot be resolved into a sin~le
struoture of time.
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