TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
Zatim je Zemun doznao jo! i to da je ona
bi1a siro~e. kad su je uda1i za Vuka.
Isakovi~a. i da je mis1i1a da 6e joj on
~odinu dana biti kao otac. dok se ne rodi
prvo dete. pa 6e joj tek onda postato mu!
(63) •
Then Zemun heard more that she was an
orphan when thev married her to Vuk
Isakovi~. and that ~or a vear she thouaht
he wou1d be 1ike & ~&ther to her unti1
she had their ~irst chi1d.
The ima~e o~ the ~ather ~i~ure and the authorit~ which
it carries has pervaded &11 aspects o~ Da~ina's 1i~e.
Da~ina is exc1uded ~rom the socia1 or~anisations
.
on
which the brothers base their authoritv.
P'urthermore.
she appears not to even possess the 1an~ua~e
which the
.brothers use to svmbo1ise time. The ima~e o~ stars
associated with her e¥es is what is seen bV Aran&e1 when
nona aa ~1edale svojim 1epim. modrim o~ima boje ~isto~.
zimskoa. ve~ernje~
neba. mirno. kao da su se nad njima
sja1e zvezde" ("she 100ked at him with her beauti~u1.
b1ue eves the co1our o~
a pure. winter's. evenina skV.
ca1m1v. as stars shone above them" 64).
He is ~irst
attracted to her "jer be.e m1ada. visoka. zdrava i
jer
je uporno 6uta1a. svojim ve1ikim. modrim o~ima"
("because she was voun~.
ta11. hea1thv and because she
maintained a stubborn si1ence. with her bic. b1ue eves"
65) • The "stubborn si1ence" revea1s a decree o~
resistence in Da~ina. but which remains passive. She
maintains her si1ence when in his house. and "pred njim.
pre sve~a.
6uta1a jet isp1akana. sa jednim tajanstvenim
osmehom" ("in ~ront o~ him. most o~ a11. she was si1ent.
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