POIGRAVANjE SA TEMAMA, MORALOM I VREMENOM PUTEM STRUKTURE U ROMANU STRELA VREMENA MARTINA EJMISA

Abstract

: In this paper we presented an overview of the structure in the novel Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis. Namely, through the unique and quite peculiar structure of the novel, the writer managed to fiddle with various themes, moral and time itself. The world we studied should be observed via inversion, so as to fully comprehend the meaning and impact of the novel’s structure. We began by describing the theoretical and methodological framework of the paper, continued on to elaborating the regularities of Amis’ world, until at the end we focused on the relationship between the narrator and the protagonist and their experiences, as well as the impressions they leave on the reader. Given the fact that the narrator is convinced that the backwards flow of time is proper, he, unlike the reader, does not possess the reference that time goes by chronologically, which creates marvelous effects on both the narrator and the reader. As a consequence, in this discrepancy between what we know and its representation in the novel, we witness Amis’ mastery as a writer who is simultaneously able to conjure comic and tragic emotions within the reader