The Archaic Garden and the Idyllic Chronotope. On Milovan Danojlić’s Novel "Godina prolazi kroz avliju" ("The Year Passes Through the Courtyard") Cover Image

Архајски врт и идилични хронотоп. О роману "Година пролази кроз авлију" Милована Данојлића
The Archaic Garden and the Idyllic Chronotope. On Milovan Danojlić’s Novel "Godina prolazi kroz avliju" ("The Year Passes Through the Courtyard")

Author(s): Valentina Hamović
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Keywords: novel-chronicle;novel of space;novel about childhood;annular composition;myth;idyllic chronotope;doubled narrator;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the unusual viewpoint and the cyclical composition of Milovan Danojlić’s novel "Godina prolazi kroz avliju" (The Year Passes Through the Courtyard). The entire narrative space of this novel is limited by the title itself– although the broadly conceived temporal level leads to the characteristic chronicle structure, this work can equally be considered a singular novel of space.The place that the Boy inhabits and lives in is a space that essentially determines him, and it represents a village avlija (courtyard), a corner of the Earth where the collective life and personal, internal and exceptionally intimate awareness of the world and the people in it intersect.

  • Issue Year: 46/2014
  • Issue No: 154
  • Page Range: 919-933
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian