TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
beh~nd ~n the oare o~ h~s brother. Aran4el. Vuk has
arown t~red o~ h~s w~~e. Da~~na. but Aran4el has
developed an ob.essive de.1~e to~ he~. The¥ .leep
toeether one nieht, and the followine dav Dafina falls
and dies from her in~uries.
developments in two looi o~
The novel traoes the
aotion. Vuk awav at the war.
and Aran4el with Da~ina in Zemun. Conneotions are made
between the characters, separated as thev are bV ere at
distances.Vuk is freQuentlv described in introspective
moods indicatine that. like the narrator ~n Dnevnik 0
earno~evi6u.
quest~onina
he has reached a point when he is
his purpose and direction in life.
In addition to these novels of the earlv period.
the autho~ published or beean to write others. The
first suoh novel has onlv reoentlv been rediscovered.
It is a detective storv. Podaemni kl.ub. written bv
Crnjanskias a Quiok wav of earninrr: monev. but published
as a transl.ationof an orieinal novel bv Harald Johnsson
(64). It was published in Pan~evo and intended for a
popular fiction market.
It is of no interest for this
thesis as it contributes nothinc to a disoussion o~
time
in Crnjanski's novels.
It has been succested bv
Viaeaoslav Hron~eo
in Knji!evne novine that the novel
mav indeed be a translation. as a novel bV the same
author under the same title appeared in Huncarian 1n
1'20 (65). The next novel, Suzni krokodil, was never
oompleted. and onlv ~our
instalments appeared in Srpski
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