Vol.7, No 1, 2009 pp. 123 - 134
UDC 821.111 – 311.2.09 Akrojd P.
THE POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE OF
TIME IN PETER ACKROYD'S HAWKSMOOR
Ana Sentov
Faculty of Law and Business Studies, Novi Sad
ana.sentov@gmail.com
This paper deals with the chronotope of the postmodern novel, such as Peter
Ackroyd's Hawksmoor, in which non-linear time and temporal displacement
problematise the reality by questioning scientific laws that govern the
time perspective of the modern world, and by questioning social and cultural
constructions of time in Western society. The author problematises the
linear time perspective in two ways: by reversing the supposed direction
of time, i.e. traveling backwards in time, and by using two historically
discontinuous time frames. This paper will show how the novel successfully
challenges modern assumptions about linear time and history, because at
the ending the readers have to accept that the lines between past and present
are becoming blurred and that the two main characters may have been one
identity, partly in the present and partly in the past.
Key words: chronotope, postmodern novel, time, present, past
POSTMODERNISTIČKA PERSPEKTIVA
VREMENA U HOKSMURU PITERA AKROJDA
Rad se bavi hronotopom u jednom postmodernističkom romanu, kao što je
Akrojdov Hoksmur, u kome se realnost problematizuje tako što se dovode
u pitanje naučni zakoni koji upravljaju protokom vremena, kao i poimanje
vremena u zapadnom društvu. Autor problematizuje moderno poimanje vremena
na dva načina: tako što preusmerava tok vremena, tj. vraća se u prošlost,
i tako što u strukturi romana upotrebljava dva vremenska okvira koji su
istorijski diskontinualni. Rad pokazuje kako se roman uspešno poigrava
modernim shvatanjima o linearnom toku vremena i istorije jer na kraju romana
čitaoci moraju da prihvate da su granice između prošlosti i sadašnjosti
postale nejasne i da su možda dva glavna junaka zapravo jedna te ista
ličnost.
Ključne reči: hronotop, postmodernistički roman, vreme, sadašnjost,
prošlost
