TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER THREE
I would i;0 off somewhere far away and I
would not turn back. I would i;O off
somewhere into the yellow leaves •••
One me je zai;rlila odmah. Ona je lep~a
sad. Ona je sad puna tame. Ona ima
ne~ei; bolesna ~to pre nije imala. ne~ei;
~to se dobija od stida (p49).
She embraced me immediatelv. She is more
beautiful now. She is now full of
darkness. She has somethini; ill about
her which she did not 'have before.
somethini; which one i;ets from shame.
Bili smo sme~ni.
(p51) •
i mladi. ah tako mladi
We were absurd. and uounc. oh so uounc.
'N06i su ledene i zvezdane. Ostavljaju
otvorene prozore. Ka!u led i zvezde 6e
mi izle~iti plu6a (p65).
The nii;hts are icv and starrv. Thev
leave the windows open. They say the ice
and the stars will cure mv luni;s.
U starim mrtvim re~ima volim mo~u
sudbinu, u oblacima m1sao mOi; stole6a a u
osmehu mome skamenjenu snai;U roda mOi;
(p65) •
In the old dead words I
love mv fate. in
the clouds the thoui;ht of mv ace and in
mv smile the petrified streni;th of mv
,P""f III •
Radoje Simi6 discusses manv similar points. with the
intention of establishinc the continuitv of Crnjanski's
stvle in his four major novels.
His approach is
descriptive of the lini;uistic patterns in Crnjansk1'.
sentence structures rather than interpretative.
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However. he comes to certain ceneral conclusions about
Onevnik 0 ~arnojevi6u
whiCh help to reinforce the
point of our analysis: principally. the static nature of
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