TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FIVE
the va~ues wh~ch wou~d ~~ve mean~n~ to h~s memories.
The rupture between the time of memories and the
present time of writin~ is redrawn in the t~me scale
which the sailor represents.
Na svom topu. na pa~ubi. u no6i zvezdane.
na sinjem moru. kad ne bi video ni~de
niae~ do neba i vodu. on b~ bio ~ospodar
sveta (40).
On his ~un. on the deck. in the starry
ni~hts. on the blue sea. when he would
see noth~n~ anywhere except the skU and
the water. he would be lord of the wor~d.
He acknow~ed~es the past ~n the present. he does not
live life in fear but with a sense of purpose lookin~
to
the vastness of an infinite future. symbolised in the
surroundin~ vastness of the sea and sky. The references
which he makes to Sumatra echo Crnjansk~'s
poem of that
name and the interconnectedness of al~ thin~s in each
moment:
Ne. n~je vile znao Ita je dobro. a Ita
zlo. niti je znao zalto ~ovori toliko 0
!ivotu. n~je se melao u prep~rke. ~ n~je
vile verovao n~ u Ita. do u neke plave
oba~e na Sumatr~.Tamo je nje~ova
sudbina (41).
No. he no loncer knew what was cood. and
what bad. nor did he know why he talks so
much about ~ife. he did not meddle ~n
sQuabbles. and he no lon~er believed in
any thine. except some blue shores on
Sumatra. There is his fate.
The sa~lor echoes the diar~st's separation from values.
His separation does not result in alienation. but in a
l~berat~on which approaches the transecendenta~ nature
of sumatraism.
He is a projection of the d~arist·.
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