TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FOUR
Dloni mu vi~e u uvo da. ni malo. ne treba
da se stidi. Ito je ruski emiKrant.
Ruski emiKranti su nau~ili svet baletu.
pevanju. u Parizu. u Americi. u teatru.
Cak'i Sekspiru. A siromalni. stari.
kosmati. ruski pro~esori. napunile u
tu4ini. knjiKama. katedre i universitete.
kao nekad Grci. kad je Konstantinopolj
pao. O!on kale da treba da se ose6a. kao
apostol. ali. na !alost. on je o~icir.
o~icir. potomak Rjepnina. koji je sa
svojim kozacima ulao u Parizo Eto to je.
Dlim mu vi~u u uli da treba da se stidi.
jer 6e njihova deca da slu!e tu4inu.
Menjaju i svoje ime. He znaju vile. ni
svoj jezik. Postaju Prancuzi.
Amerikanci. Enalezi, Hemci. Italijani.
melezi. Prodaju set kao Ito su robove
prodavali. Postali su 4ubre za
na4ubrivanje. neplodnih zemalja. Fa It.
je onda istina: lim iIi l2hn? 3e Ii
to bila sre6a. iIi nesre6a? (50).
He tried to explain that in him" the
Russian 6miKr6 in London. two beines
~ouaht - which he named as a joke to
himselt: 3im and~. 3im cries in
his ear that he is poor. a beaaar in a
~ore1Kn countrv. that he wlll ~lnlsh up
in the Kutter. That 'a man can onlv be
hapPV ln his own countrv. That what has
happened to the Russians is the ereatest
mis~ortune. worse than the invasion o~
the MonKols and Moneolian slaverv. In
the whole world Russian ot~icers have to
wash dishes. sell newspapers. clean
streets. sell rUKS. or veaetables.
Johnnv cries in his ear that he should
not teel ashamed in the least because he
is a Russian '.ler'. Russian emiar~s
have tauCht the world ballet., sinaine. in
Paris, in America. in the theatre. Even
taueht Shakespeare. And poor. old.
lone-haired Russian protessors have been
tilline chairs and universities abroad
with their books. like the Greeks once
cSid when Constantinople f"ell. 30hn savs
that he should ~eel like an apostle.' but
he. untol"tullatelv. is an of"ticer.
otticer. desoendant of" the R"epnin who
entered Paris with his Cossacks. There
it is. Jim ories in his ears that he
should be ashamed. tor their children
will serve • ~oreicn oountrv.' Thevare
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