TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FIVE
of their vears. thev were still voun~ to
be reconcilin~ themselves with the past
onlv. Thev should reconcile themselves.
she savs. with the future too.
Her attitude keeps both of them'from sinkin~
into
hopelessness. She is prepared to face thechan~es which
time brin~s in its wake. and encou~a~es her husband:
Niki. - mo!da 6e nam ovo prole6e. zaista.
doneti. neke promene u !ivotu? Mo!da 6e
se London promeniti. izmeniti prema nama?
Molda 6emo se promeniti mi? %ivot se
sastoji iz promena. I sudbina se menja?
(79)
Niki - perhaps this sprin~ will reallv
brin~ somne chan~es into our lives?
Perhaps London will chan~e. chan~e
towards us? Perhaps we shall chan~e?
Life consists of chan~es. And fate
chan~es.
She remarks that his pessimistic outlook is a result of
his assumin~
that evervone's experience is the same:
Nikolaj. vi prenosite svoje misli u misli
dru~ih u Londonu. a mislite. da su svi
bez ku¢e. bez porodice. bez svoje zemlje.
bez smisla u svom !ivotu. zato. ito se
sve to n~a destlo (80) •.
Nikolaj. ¥ou transfer vour thou~hts on to
the thou~hts of others in London. and vou
think that thev are all without a home.
familv. without their own countrv. with
no point to their lives, because that has
happened to us.
But Rjepnin continues to be obsessed with the past. and
with the he~ltace
it-holds.
His state of mind deteriorates rapidlv once Na&a
has left for the United States.
He then unconsciouslv
acknowled~es
the stabilitv which she brouCht to his
life:
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