TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
sense of nationhood are c1ose1~ 1ntertw1ned. He
maintained his hope durin~
the three wars in which he
fou~ht for the Austrians a~a1nst the Turks, under the
influence of his father's promise that the Serbs would
return and liberate the1r land from the Turks.
Pod uticajem o~evih obe6anja, koji "mu je
punio ~lavu 0 povratku u popa1jenu 1
pok1anu, opuste1u Serb1u, on je u vojsci
!iveo ne same u m1ru, ve6 1 u sva tri
svoja rata, bezbr1!no i zadovo1jno,
o~ekuju61 jednako nelto prijatno Ito 6e /
svima njima da se do~odi (2).
Under the 1nf1uence of h1s father's
promises, which filled his head with
ideas about returnin~ to pi11aced.
sl~:~~. and deserted Serbia. he lived in
the armv not on1~ at peace. but in all
three wars carefree and satisfied.
constant1~ expeot1n~ somethin~ pleasant
to happen to all of them.
It was on1~ after h1s father's death that Vuk be~an to
not1ce the other side of life for the Serbs.
H1s
success 1n the armv made h1m trusted b~
the authorit1es
and he was freQuent1~ called on b~ them to help relocate
the Serbs sett11n~
1n the Emp1re to escape the Turk1sh
. domination of the south I
Tek pos1e o~eve smrt1. zapadaju61 sve
dub1je u taj vojniaki !ivot.
nase1javanja. pop1s1vanja. ~om11anja
1jud1 1 stoke. po tvr4avama i vojni~ki
raspore4en1m se11ma, Isakovi~ oset1 da
nilta bo1je ne b1va 1 tek tada pr1meti
oko sebe b1at11ta 1 barult1na. bedu
svoj1h 1jud1. !1vot. svak1 dan 1st1
~~mern1 !1vot. u se11ma 1 lanaev1ma. po
ku6ama na vod1. po ko11bama 1 obor1ma, "PO
rupama 1skopan1m u zem1j1 (3).
On1~ after his father's death. fa111n~
deeper into that m111tarv life of
settlements. oensus, crowds of people and
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