TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER S~X
her tears now cried aw~. with a MYsterious smi~e" 66).
And on her deathbed. in Arande~'s
as the one "koja vile nije moe~a
arms. she is described
da eovori" ("who cou~d
no ~on~er speak" 61).
Dafina's si~ence svmbo~ises her exc~usion from the
wor~d of action. and from the wor~d of cul.ture. .The
svmbo~s
of time usedbv the two brothers are
fundamental.l.v associated with the author1tv which thev
derive from the social wor~d.
The power to initiate a
new ori~in
within the framework of the ~enea~oe1cal.
imperative is a mascul.ine order.
from the discourse of time itsel.f.
Dafina is a~ienated
She refl.ects on the
wretchedness of her past and her life with Vuk which
seemed to .her like ttjedna duboka nesre6a. u kojoj se ona
uza~ud trudi~a da nekud ode" (tta deep unhappiness. in
which she had tried in vain to eo awav somewhere" 68).
Her escape from the present in a journev is not
associated with the cosmic 1ma~erv
out of which the
brothers construct an 1ma~e of a who~e new future.
Her happiest memories of her marr1a~e
to Vuk are
their ear~iest davs to~ether when thev woul.d ride
toeether in the countrvside. and "ne znaju61 prvih
mesec1 sa lenom n1 da ~ovor1.
jer ona nije zna~a
nema~ki. a on ni ~r~ki n1 ml.eta~k1. ispomo~ao se pesmom.
-
1arankom. po~led1ma 1 pol.jupcima" (ttnot abl.e even to
speak with his wife. for she d14 not know German. and he
neither Greek nOr Ital.1an. he communicated with son~.
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