TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER ONE
preoccupations and characterised bv Crnjanski's
particular literarv stvle.
In addition to the three
alreadv mentioned the fourth novel to be the subject of
this studv is Druea knjica seoba (8).
Little has been written about time in Crnjanski's
work.
In her introduction to the 1978 edition of his
poetrv SVetlana Velmar-Jankovi6 comments that
misao 0 smislu trajanja postaje kod ovoc
pesnika svest 0 potrebi da se to trajanje
razbija i razlo~i (9).
thinkinc on the sense of duration becomes
in the work of this poet an awareness of
the need tor the destruction and
demolition of duration.
Radomir Konstantinovi6 remarks that Crnjanski's poetrv
touches upon a realm where
svaka istorija prestaje, nala ljudska
istorija, cde po~inje jedno drueo,
apsolutnije vreme, mo~da vreme bez
vremena, mo~da vreme s one strane
istorije (10).
each historv ceases, our human historv,
where one other more absolute time
beeins. perhaps a time without time.
perhaps time from the other side of
historv.
Criticism on Crnjanski's novels has tended to ienore
their temporal complexitv. and tocus on the particular
use ot imaeerv.
Petar D~ad~16's
This view of his work has culminated in
book Prostori sre6e u delu Milola
Crnjanskoc, in which he emphasises the use ot place
imacerv (11).
The primarv aim ot this thesis is to
present the first'lone studv devoted to the question of
time in his novels.
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