Anomalii temporale la Milorad Pavić (pe baza romanului „Partea lăuntrică a vântului sau roman despre Hero și Leandru”)
Temporal Anomalies in Milorad Pavić’s The Inner Side of the Wind

Summary/Abstract: In the narrative fiction of the Serbian writer Milorad Pavić, the theme of time plays a crucial role in constructing postmodernist discourse. The present study will take into account the work of literary critics Mark Currie and Ursula Heise on the topic of time and then examine the ways in which temporal relationships fashion the fictional discourse in Pavić’s The Inner Side of the Wind: Or, the Novel of Hero and Leander (1991). Our investigation will consider the variety of temporal strategies used in the novel such as: alternating chronology with temporal discontinuities; occasional lapses of explicit temporal indications; temporal fragmentation; the presence of flashbacks; prolepsis, and retrospectives. We will discuss this impressive variety of temporal strategies in the context of postmodernist poetics.

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