TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FIVE
helped put out the fires durin~
the blitz of the Second
World War. he can be treated so off-handedlv.
The onlv
source of income thev have had for over a veal" has been
from charitable trusts set up bV the Russian and Polish
'mi~r& communities., and one from an or~anisation "nekih.
en~leskih. ~ena. koje su osnovale: Klub boraca za
individualnu slobodu" ("of some En~lish
women who
founded the Club of Fi~hters
for Individual Freedom"
60) •
Rjepnincriticises the En~lish
attitude towards
monev. since status and worth are linked onlv to wealth:
Novac ima. u vremenu u kom ~ivimo. sna~u
Sunca. sna~u. koju suze viie nemaju.
Sre6a ljudska je sad u novcu. En~lezi su
od tr~ovinena~inili reli~iju. Kad se u
Londonu pita. ko je ko. koliko vredi ko.
- "How much is he worth". - mislise:
koliko ima? Koliko funti? A mi. u
ruskoj emi~raciji. sad. ne vredimo niita
(61) •
Monev has. in the times in which we live.
the power of the Sun. a power which tears
no lon~er hold. Human happiness is now
in monev. The En~lish have made a
reli~ion of'trade. When someone in·
London asks. who is who. how worthv
someone is. "How mugh i, he worth." one
thinks: how much does he have? How manv
pounds? And we. in emiaration from
Russia. now. are not worth anvthin~.
Rjepnin's puts his lack of monev down to a contest of
values. in which his militarv back~round
has no meanin~:
_oficir ni~de nije riba u vodi. kad iz~ubi
otadlbinu. ne~o riba ,na pesku. En~lezi
nam priznaj u slavu., U nama se klanj aj u
celom ~ove(;!al'\\stvu. k,ao ito se Dostojevski
prostitutki klanjao. Samo ne znaju kako
bi. u svom knjicovodstv\l knjilili vernost
savezni~ku (62).
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