TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER FIVE
1948 but with a parallel time scale from thirtv vears
before superimposea on the text.
Karl Jaspers has
commentea on the neaative aspect of such identification
with memorv:
If I iaentified mvself with the picture I
have of mv past. for example. I would
lose mvself. I would be constructina a
schema of mv past which I want to be.
measurina the present and the future bV
the standards of mv past and depreciatina
them. I am not what I beoome. then. but
I think I am what I believe I have been -
with the result that mv verv concept of
the present and the future will be as if
thev alreadv were in the past (85).
Followina Na4a's·departure Rjepnin formulates his
concept of who he is bv the standaras of what he has
been.
The dualitv of existence in time. which was
explored in Onevnik 0 earnojev~4u. resurfaces in
Roman 0 Londonu. Followina Na4a's departure Rjepnin
leaves his job with which he was auaranteed
accommodation.
Bv chance he meets an ol.d friend. the
Pole Ordinski. who offers him his fl.at as a pl.ace to
stav whil.e he takes a trip to Pol.and to see his famil.v.
Whil.e there Rjepnin comes to the concl.usion that his
death is the onl.v loaical. al.ternative to end inc up as a
beccar:
Kroz kojidan, krajem septembra, njemu.
~oaiano. ostaje da izvrli samo jedno. da
uaini kraj, i sebi, i svemu, ako ne4e da
zavrli, bedno. sramno, prosjaaki, a ta
mocu4nost je Samol smrt. Smvert' (86).
After a dav or two. at the end of
September, there remained for him
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