TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER THREE
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a:orak (75).
0" . I"ttUa.viflt;;f ~. ~or the th:l.rd t:l.me. she
. no lona:er even tried to detain h:l.m
s:l.ncerely. Insincere and l~ina:. she
pretended to kiss him passionately. but
her weep:l.na: in wh:l.ch she steeped her
k:l.sses was no lona:er b:l.tter.
Both brothers have constructed an 1maa:e o~
Da~1na
.over t:l.me. which in neither 'case corresponds to the w&¥
that Da~ina
sees the development of her relat1onsh:l.p
with Vuk. Thev have made her into a ~emme ~atale. an
1maa:e which pers:l.sts even a~ter
her death when the
villaa:ers tear that she returns trom her a:rave each
n:l.a:ht asa vamp:l.re. But Da~:l.na ~eels that ae a woman
she has no choices as she rea:ards her position.
"Nemalt:l.na. samo6a. bolelt1na. sve joj se to u~1n:l.
!.enska sudb:l.na" ("Povert~.
loneliness. sickness. all
that seemed to her the ~emale lot" 76). She has no
access to the power that money can br:l.na:. which Aran4el
has experienced as a successful merchant. nor to the
statue o~ a m:l.l1tar~ and civic leader like her husband.
Noth:l.na: in her lite has occurred "po volj1 njenoj"
(ttaccordina: to her wil.l." 77). and she ~eela
that ahe has
alwavs been an object both when a ch1l.d and as a w:l.~eJ
Stvar. atvar je bila. kao Ito 6e to i
njene k6er1 bit1. uz1mane 1 ostavljene.
iacmakane 1 odba~ene. l.izane i udarane.
bez- reda. bez sm1sla (78).
A th1na:. she has been a thina:. as her
daua:hters wil.ll be too. taken and
abandoned.-k:l.ssed and rejected. ~ondled
and beaten. w:l.thout sense. pointlesslV.