TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
his ~ather's
promise that the nation will then return to
Serbia. Vuk's view o~ histor~ is monumental. in
Nietzschean terms.
Nietzsche describes an individual
who holds such a view as one whose "coal is happiness.
not perhaps his own. but o~ten
the nation's or
humanit~'s at larce n (16). For Vuk histor~ is a strine
o~ creat deeds across the centuries. and his anticipated
reward is ~ame and a place in that hi8tor~. Vuk's
~ather is the source o~ authorit~ which has cuided his
search ~or happiness and ~ul~illment. and which links
him to the wider ~low o~ historical events. However.
~rom the ~ollowinc comment it is clear that the course
o~ histor~ has becun to chance. "Bil0 je jasno da se
vremena turskih rat ova vi.e ne6e vratiti n (nIt was clear
that the times o~
the Turkish wars would not return"
17). leavinc Vuk to live "po tu