TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FIVE
mene" ("You l.ook l.ike me" 32).
The l.atteI' phI'ase is
lateI' echoed in the diaI'Y when CaI'nojevi6 visits an old
1'I'iend of his 1'atheI'. who "ka!e. da sasvim l.i~im
na
n;:fea:a" ("says that I l.ook veI'Y much l.ike him" 33).
His
1'atheI' died when he was a child.
The associations
between the sail.oI' and CaI'nojevi6 are deepened by the
contI'asts between them.
The diaI'Y as a confessional monoloa:ue I'eveal.s an
obsession with a:uil.t and death in memories associated
with the ficuI'e of Ra;:fi6.
Al.l. his rel.ationships with
women aI'e col.oured by these 1'eel.ina:s. and in them there
is a close association between EI'oS and Thanatos.
His
I'elationships with women are unsuccessful. except for the
nUI'se in whose care he is pl.aced like a child.
The
1'oll.owina: comment on his rel.ationship with his Pol.ish
nurse a:ives a clue for the success of that affair:
Ona me ;:fe smestil.a
su prozori a:ledali
jedne stare crkve.
detinjstvu (34).
u zasebnu sobu. ~i;:fi
u z&mrzle prozore
Bil.o ;:fe kao u-
She settled me into a separate room.
whose windows looked onto the frozen
windows of an old church. It was like in
childhood.
The nurse is presented as a mother fia:ure in
Carno;:fevi6's memory. which sua:a:ests that one reason for
his intention to write his memories is a search for a
l.ost innocence.
Similarl.y. in his memory of Izabela and
MaI'ija when on holiday one veal'. there is a sharp
contrast between his view of Izabela. with whom he
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