TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER THREE
Crnjanski tends to make a series of short statements in
which their causal or sequential succession is
uncertain:
Radulovi6 mi je doneo dvopeka. Oirali
smo neke prljave lene i kupovali smo
~okalade.lz Zlo~ova smo doneli pune
torbe jela. Na tr~u je bilo nekoliko
obe~enih Rusina. Na ~lavnom putu smo
dobili tri te~ke ~ranate. Bilo je ve6
dosta mrtvih. Navikli smo se (14).
Radulovi6 brou~ht me some biscuits. We
touched some tainted women and we bou~ht
some chocolate. From Zlo~ov we brou~ht
full ba~s of food. On the square there
were several Ruthenians strun~up. On
the main road we were bombed with three
heavu ~renades. There were alreadu manu
dead. We were used to it.
Le!im, a moji prozori su lute boje. I,
kukavan i bolestan, ja vidim kako iz
mra~nih podrumskih prozora viri zima. A
ovo !uto li~6e puna sne~a prati me ve6
tri ~odine i pada mi na ~rudi i ubija me.
Lelim i vidim sarno drve6e kroz prozor.
Raz~ovaramo. Li~6e mi nji~e zbo~om i
pada. A zar nije ljubav samo li~6e7
(l.5) •
I am l~in~ down, and ~ windows are
uellow. And, cowardlu and ill, I can see
the winter peerin~ ~n from the dark
cellar windows. And these uellow leaves
full of snow have been followin~ me for
three ~ears and tallin~ on ~ chest and
killin~ me. lam ll'in~ down and I can
see onll' the trees throu&h the window.
We talk. The leaves are swin&in& their
farewells and fallin~. And isn't love
just leaves?
Oa. se6am se. U primorju je sad prole6e.
A ja le!im i ~itam novine i cledarn
4lakuljice pune aneca na crudima. eitam
novine i ee6am ee. Vojnik eam, niko.i
nilta nieam 1 eve Ito ee dea110 ne
razumem. Po Petro~radu 10p1 krv.Makeim
Gork1 zove eve jadn1ke ku61 a u Pelti u
eaborn1c1 sed! baron Raja~16 bled 1
pOdruclj1vo naamejan. A oko njeca eka~u
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