TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
In the first chapter the prince sees himself as a
divided subject. not onlv on the level Of narrative
presentation. but in a more literal sense. in the window
Of a passinc tube train:
Ma kako jurile ljudske misli. u prollost.
u mozcu, - ~ak i u jednom takvom,
raseljenom. mozcu. - vozovi podzemne
lelezn1ce u Londonu ne6e da. zboC toea.
stanu. Naprotiv. jure pod zemljom. i
paralelno. Tada svak1 u vaconu. vidi. za
trenut. dva. svoje lice. sebe. i u drucom
vozu. kao u nekompodzemnom ocledalu. 1
nestaje brzo (49).
However human thouchts rush into the·
past. in the mind~- even in such a
displaced mind - the trains of the
undercround railwav in London will not.
for that reason. stop. On the contrarv.
they race under the cround even in
parallel. Then. each one in the carriace
can see for a moment or two his own face.
himself. in the other train as'it' in some
under.round mirror. and quickly
disappears.
This imace of the duality Of beinc is expressed later in
the novel by the voices Of Jim and John. In .. the third
part of the novel, Rjepnin is invited to the house of
Sir Malcolm Parks. who had been one Of the cuests at the
hotel in Cornwall.
He tries to explain to Parks that he
feels as if he is inhabited by two different beincs,
Pokulao je da objasni. da se. u njemu.
ruskom emiarantu'u Londonu. bore dva
bi6a. - koj. on, u lali. u sebi. naziva,
lim 1 l2hn. Dlim mu vi~e u uvo da je
bednik. prosjaku tuc!ini. da 6e da zavriU
u oluku. Da samo u svojoj zemlji mole
~ovek da bude sre6an. Da jet to. Ito je
zadesilo Ruse najve6a nesre6a. cora neco
Ito je bilo najezda Moncola i moncolsko
ropstvo. Na celom svetu ruski ot'icir1
ima da perusudove. prodaju novine. ~iste
ul1ce. prodaju 611imove. ili zelen.
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