TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FIVE
his diary with a para&raph statine that existence has no
meaninc. His anxieties and fears. his refus~ to
consider the truth of experience. are countered by an
alternative view.
The positive resuLt for the diarist
is contained in the defiance of his closinc statement.
"Ali ako umrem. pocleda6u poslednji put nebo. utehu
moju. i smeai6u se" ("But if I die. I sh~l take one
last look at the skY. my comfort. and I shal.l smile"
55). The anxiety caused bv cuilt and fear of
retribution is transformed in the closinc lines to the
succestion of a limited salvation in the future.
·Roman 0
Londonu
In both Dnevnik 0
earno;levi6u and his last novel
Roman 0
Londonu. Crnjanski includes certain events
which are autobiocraphical.
Thev a180 link issues Of
self and identity with the personal time of the main
characters as perceived bv them in memory.
In his
commentaries from Itaka i komentari he describes an
incident from his war experience when he was diacnosed
as havinc tuberculosisl
Pa ipak. sutradan. pri op.tem precledu.
dr Dumi6 ;Ie prona.ao da imam bolesna
plu6a i tolika je bila disciplina. u
Austriji. u vo;lsci. da su i dva mlada
lekara. Ma«ara. potvrdila tu di;lacnozu.
Otuda tuberkuloza kod ;lunaka
romana u Dnevniku 0 Carnojevi6u (56).
Nevertheless. on the followinc day at a
ceneral examination. Dr Dumi6 discovered
that my lunas were infected. and such was
the discipline in Austria. in the army.