TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
his oousins are.subordinated.
The two time sohemes ot
the authorial and historioal voioes represent ditterent
and irreoonoilable world views -
the desire tor treedom
and the will to sub~usate.
The militar~
and sovernment representatives ot the
Habsburs and Russian Empires judse and determine the
tate ot Pavle and his oousins. Qu~stionins Pavle at
the Russian embassv in Vienna. the ottieial Volkov
presses him to explain his motives tor emisratins to
Russia. and is onl~
satistied when Pavle oommits his
tamil~
to the Russian militarv and state:
N~ima je sasvim svejedno kakve 6e ~inove
da im Rosija da: oni idu u Rosiju. ne za
~inove. ne za poreione novoe, neso zato
da ratuju. na strani slavom uven~anih
rosijskih trupa. Sve Ito bi molio. za
sebe i svoje bratenee. da im se ne da
pehota. neso konjioa.
Volkov onda opet uzviknu:
"Horolo! Horolo'" (16).
It is ot no matter to them what rank
Russia cives them: the~ are coins to
Russia not tor rank. not tor monev. but
to wase war on the side ot the Russian
troops orowned with clorv. All that he
would ask tor himselt and his oousins.
that thev do not cive them the intantrv.
but the oavalrv.
Volkov then acain exolaimed.
"Good! Good!".
Volkov's enthusiasm is a response to what he assumes to
be Pavle's willincness to serve and maintain Russian
militarv power as a s~bol
ot the historical homoceneitv
ot the period.
As with the chronicle voioe. oharacters
are plaoed in external relation to events whioh surroun4
them.
Thev have been drawn into a partioular epoch ot
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