Kategorije vremena u romanu Grad u zrcalu Mirka Kovača
Categories of time in novel: ”City in the Mirror” author Mirko Kovac

Author(s): Ana Pejović
Subject(s): Croatian Literature, Serbian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Fakultet humanističkih nauka, Univerzitet »Džemal Bijedić« u Mostaru
Keywords: omnitemporality; anatepsis; protepsis; the rythm of storytelling; narrative anachrony;
Summary/Abstract: The organization of story time in the novel: City in the mirror was established thanks to the value attitude and psychological attitude of the main romance hero that is author himself, who is secretly behind both the self and the narrative instance and through which he communicates. From these central subjects of the narrative structure of the novel and their interaction in the narrative text (the replacement of the narrative self and experienced self ) depends also others narrative elements among which stands out time and space as unavoidable elements of fabular, compositional and the size of the novel. The aim of this paper is to explain in more details temporal categories of the narrated and to interpret to readers the most accurate picture of “double temporality” of the atormentioned novel discourse, using Zenet’s theoretical modalities of time. Structural elements of interpretation of the title topic in it’s theoretical and critical context will be focused on the analysis of the following segments: time of story and time of storytelling; order of narrative anarchy; types of prolepsis and analepses; rhythm of storytelling and narrative pace.

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