TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
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bein~-in-time wi.t~ the insti tutional ~ramework o~ the
social world.
Ultimately. the issue is to impose some
de~ree o~ self on history.
In Seobe Vuk Isakovi~ts memo~y of his father and
the influence which he exerted on his life are
instumental in shapine who he is and his actions in the
present tense of the novel:
Odrastao uz oca koji je jol Savojskom
prodavao stoku i koji je svu svoju decu.
bra6u. rodbinu. i sva svoja kumstva i
poznanstva terao u austrijsku vojsku koja
je potiskivala Turke. imao je u mladosti
~ak i lep ~ivot u toj vojsci. Ma~en i
6esto na~ra4en. on je nosio u sebi neki
ma~lovit. ali dubok pojam sre6e i
zadovoljstva. u nadi da 6e se sve to
ratovanje svrliti nekim opltim mirom. u
kom 6e i on i nje~ovi srodnici i
poznanici, i svi nje~ovi vojnici bit1
odeveni u neko naro~ito sve~ano i ~izdavo
odelo, pa 6e tako, u kru~, obi6i ratilte
i carevinu. na vidik celome svetu. koji
6e uzviknuti: ~le, S~bi! (1).
Brou~ht UP by his father. who continued
to sell cattle to Savoy, and who pushed
all his child~en. brothers. relatives.
all those closely tied to his family. and
aquaintances into the Austrian army which
was holdin~ back the Turks, he had in his
youth ~ven a nice life in the army.
Flattered and frequently decorated, he
carried in him a vaeue. but deep sense of
happiness and satisfaction. in the hope
that the warrinc woulcl end in a ceneral
peace, in which he and his relatives and
friends. and all his soldiers would be
dressed in some special ceremonial and
bri~ht uniform. and then parade around
the battlefield and the empire •. in fUll
v~ew of the world. who would exclaim:
look. the Serbs!
Vuk pursued his career in the army for the creater clorv
of the Serbian nation.
His sense Qf family and his
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