TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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says. "H06u da ti pri~am
san. jedan moj san" (ltl: want to
rel.ate to ~ou a dream. a dream of mine" 27). So. the
section which concerns the sail.or is marked as different
from the others. as it is a dream. and somethine which
is not to be foreotten rather than a re~uctant
memor~.
There are m~ points of contact between
earnojevi6. Raji6. and the sail.or.
The diarist
transforms the refrain "se6am se" .("1. remember") to
"se6ao se lt ("he remembered" 28).
On another level. the
sail.or's mother appears to earnojevi6 like his own
mother. and he remarks that "kad priCiale 0 njenoj sedoj
kosi meni se uCiini da snevam. toliko je li~ila
na moju
majku" ("when he used to talk about her ere~ hair 1.
thoucht 1. was dreamine. she looked so much like ~ own
mother" 29).
The sailor's father is like the diarist's
father toot
Ah. nikad ne mocu da zaboravim tu lenu.
Ona nije bila nikad zaljubljena. nju
nikad niko nije milovao. tukli su jet
mamili je pijani i obesni i ona je
jednako ribala pod. Njecov otac bele
veseo ~ovek. kao i moj (30).
Ah. 1. can never forcet that woman. She
was never in love, she was never caressed
b~ an~one. the~ used to beat her. drunk
and craz¥ the~ enticed her and she
continued to scrub the floor. His father
was a happ~ man. like mine.
The two characters are associated b¥ famil~
likeness.
earnojevi6-beinc led to remark that he felt the sailor
was "vile neco brat" ("more than a brother" 31). and
the sailor remarks to him simpl¥ that "vi liCiite na
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