TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
the actual time of narration in 1965. to the time of the
events in 1940-41. to the time of a trip taken to the
far north and Spitzbereen some ¥ears earlier. ,These
three tlmes represent respectivel¥ the author's private
life. his life in the past and the historical events of
the time. and the id¥lllc period of a trip to a place
1mbued w1th leaend.
Interwoven w1th these three
temporal level. are reterence. to the histor¥ of Rome.
the histor¥ of the Slavs, and m¥thical references.
Crnjanski's notlon of "veza," is not onl¥ to link
toeether events and p.ople from disparate place., but
also from disparate tim.s,'
Par from b.ine a d.nlal ,of
tim., .umatrai.m .xpr••••• a complex vi.w, of time and
it. ettect. on the world.
,Prom an earlv period critics echoed the author'.
own'use of the ,terms "sumatra" and "sumatra1sm", w1th
particular, attention to his, potion of "veza".
In a
r.view of Dn,vnlk 0
earno4.v16u wrltt.n ln1922Mllan
Dedinac wrlt.s:
crn~anskl ~e nalao potvrdu svo~e
umetnosti u snalnOM t.mperam.ntu ovoe
vr.m.nal et.rl~nom l1r1&mu Sumatre (15).
Crnjansk1 has found confirmation of his
art 1n the powertul temperament ot the
ac. and 'the .th.r.al Ivrlc1sm of Sumatra.
Sumatraism even b.cam. a sUbd.ct for comment itself in
A1eksandar 1116'. &1't1018 "SWIlatra1zam Milola
"
Crn~anskoet'
wr1tten in 192". ,1116 concludes that in h1S
Dn,vnik 0
earnoil.vi6u Crnofanski is c.I..brat1na the
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