TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
dance. clances and kisses" 69).
At this point they are
united in a ~undamental equality which is re~lected in
the natural elementss
Sa mekol6u vlalne zemlje i trave, sa
lipracom koji je u aprilu po~eo da pupi i
miriAe, sa zelenim padinama brda i.
svetlih. proletnih nebesa, udisala je
tada mlada lena, prvi put, svoc mula, kao
otrovana (10).
With the so~tness o~ the damp earth and
the crass, with the undercrowth which in
April beean to bud and eive o~~ its
~racrance, with the creen slopes o~ the
hills and o~ the bricht, sprinc skies,
the younc wi~e, then, ~or the ~irst time,
as i~ poisoned, inhaled her husband.
Without laneuaee the two o~
them are united in a natural
world. In that world, Da~ina shows her awareness o~
what is to come in her li~e
with Vuk, but cannot chanee
the course o~ time. She is destined to remain in the
world o~
world o~
nature, rather than participate in the social
culture.
In Aran~el's house Da~ina thinks back to the other
houses she has known.
There is a sense in which she has
been imprisoned by the walls, and the masculine order o~
the culture which they represent. Aran~el's house is
the most intolerable:
O~eva ku6a, naslace duvana, ~ohe i druse
robe, tetkina soba, puna ikona i kandila,
u kojoj se isprosila. pa sve os tale ku6e
i odaje. u kojima je livela sa mulem.
_pro~ole joj kroz se6anje. tulne i prazne,
bez ikakvoc smisla. Ipak su one bile
prijatne donekle, ali ova ~etiri luta
zida. Aum reke, senka postelje i pe6i.
bili su u~asni u svojoj neprekidnosti,
nepomi~nosti. skamenjenosti (11).
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