TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER. FIVE
spends the niaht. and of Marija. who is outside in the
vard when he wakes:
Probudio sam se kad sunce aranu. Videh
je poluao~u do sebe i neki aadan osmeh
ispuni me svoa. Be.e opet jutro i kao da
sam osetio. da to ne be.e sunce .to me je
probudilo. neao ;ledan a~as. ustadoh i
pri~oh pro~oru. Pod prozorom staja.e
Mari;la i pev~e. Pra~a je rub~je. I~
njenoa lika i ao~ih ramena bljesta.e
zora. Ja se traoh i poaledah na
poste~ju. Videh modre ~i~e na telu
iz~jubljene ~ene i okretoh ~lavu (35).
I woke up when the sun rose. I saw her
ha~f-naked next to me and a repulsive
sm1~e fi~led the whole of me. It was
mornina aaain and I felt as if it was not
the sun which had woken me but a voice.
I aot up and went to the window. Under
the window stood Mari;Ja and she was
sinaina. She was washina clothes. From
her face and bare shoulders Shone the
dawn. I f~inched a~d stared at the bed.
I saw the blue veins on the bodv of the
woman I had ~oved and I turned mv head
awav.
The descriPtion of Izabe~a
contrasts sharplv with the
puritv associated with Mari;Ja.
Isabela is depicted as a
bodilV fiaure Of this earth. her mOl"talitv emphasised
aaainst the puritv of Mari;Ja who not onlv bears the
same name as the mother of God but is associated with
dawn. liaht. and the cosmic forces of eternitv. The
diarist is similarlv repu~sed
Finallv. the diarist revea~s
bv his wife. Maca.
the basis Of his revulsion
in the close connection he sees between phVsical life in
all its aspects and death. the end of individual time.
as he describes in a scene from his journev home when he
sleeps on the arave Of a thirteen-veal" old a1rll
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