TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
conce~ns all women in he~ society. The futu~e fo~ women
is only eve~ suffe~ini:, and "beAe joj ~ao samo da su obe
devoj~ice
i da 6e i one, kad budu kao i ona, fene,
toliko patiti" ("she was so~~y only fo~ both he~ little
i:i~ls, that they too, when they a~e like he~, women,
will suffe~ so much" 61).
He~
life with Vuk, accompanyini: him fromi:a~~ison
to i:arrison, his loni: absences, ~ivini:
in provincial
towns, left he~
feelini: dissatisfied. She bei:ins to
think of what the future mii:ht be like with Aranc!el "i
da se teAi bOi:atstvom u kome 6e od sada ~iveti,
ako se
p~euda
za devera" ("and to console herself with the
wealth in which she would live f~om
now, if she ma~~ied
her brother-in-law" 62).
Any attempt to create a sense
of he~ own histo~y. possibilities fo~ the futu~e, her
present, are always in relation to the two brothers.
By
contrast they a~e able, when the p~esent appears out of
their cont~ol.
to i:ive new shape to the times in.which
they live.
Dafina is cha~acterised by silence. In the
st~ucture of the novel. alte~natini: between diffe~ent
character points of view. information about her past is
first made known throui:h Aranc!el's memo~y
of her when he
was lookini: for a wife for his wayward brother.
Further
info~mation is made known about he~ past from the point
of view of Zemun society. before her past is considered
from he~
own point of viewt
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