TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
padaju, i prole6a oko njih nastaju, kad
on h06e i kako on h06e (50).
He felt a supernatural power in his
thalers, since where he shook out hi.
purse, there boats stopped and houses
became immovable and his. They moved
accordin~ to his will and his plans and
soon it seemed to him that the rains fell
on them, and that sprin~s rose around
them, when he wanted and how he wanted.
Aran&el is able to command the world around him by
buyin~
it, he exerts his will over the present tense in
which he lives, and to himself ima~ines
that he is able
to control nature.
Aran&el is able to exert a sense of
his self on events around him.
His desire for Dafina is
a desire to possess. He watches and wei~hs her
movements in his house and "kao dobar tr~ovac,
video je
o CSemu se radi" ("like a eood merchant, he saw what was
~oine on" 51).
Aran&el is very different from Vuk.
He has never
held any reeard for his father, for the community. and
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for the future of the nation.
He enters into history as
a merchant. with the desire to possess.
However. as
with Vuk whose sense of self in history is shattered
when his father's promise is taken awav. Aran&el also
chanees when his feel1nes towards Dafina chance:
Verovao je da 6e, ovoca puta. do!iveti
nelto Ito one druse nisu moele da mu dadu
i verovao je da mora postojati u njeeovom
_!ivotu neko doba u kom 6e mu biti
pri;1atno 1 dobra, lako, kao na nebes1ma,
kao Ito je njeeov brat Vuk verovao da
mora neCde / b1t1neka dObra i krasna
zemlja, kuda sv1 treba da se.1sele (52).
He believed that this time he would
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