TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
experience sQmethin~ which those other ~~e~
could not ~ive him and he believed that
there must exist in his life some period
which would be pleasant and ~ood. easy.
as it is in heaven. as his brother
believed that there must be some ~ood and
beautiful land where they should all
mi~rate.
Aran4el be~ins
to look at the future in a wav which
corresponds to Vuk's vision of Russia.
His desire for
his sister-in-law deprives him of the selt-assured
tranquillity with which he approached his life in the
past:
To Ito je sve tako nepredvi4eno dollo.
pora!avalo ~a je i ~ulilo. Na dru~i
na~in i oltrije, ne~o nje~ov brat,
Aran4el Isakovi~ ose6ao je u!as. ~rozan
u!as Ito je oko njih sve tako promenljivo
i besmisleno. jer se ne do~a&a po njinoj
volji i njinim nadama. Da se ne~de
izmire on i brat. to je sve vile !eleo, i
da oboje potr~e u ovu novu zemlju.
barovitu. i ravnu. ali mirisnu i nebesnu.
u kojoj su po~eli da se smiruju. posle
onoliko~ tumaranja (53).
Everythin~ which had come come so
unexpectedly confused and choked him. In
a different wav and more sharpl~ than his
brother, Aran&el I.akovi~ felt a horror,
the terrifYin~ horror that everyth1n~
around them is so transient and
pointless. tor ~t does not happen
.ccordin~ to their will and their hopes.
That he and his brother could be
reconciled somewhere. that was what he
wanted more and more, and both of them to
run into this new land. marshy. and flat.
but tra~rant and celestial, in which they
" - .": bep.,n to settle, after so much
wanderin~.
Aran4el wants reconciliation with his brother. and a
return to the tamil~ which he scorned betore. His
motives are to be suspected. but like Vuk his sense ot
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