TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
her shadow in the mire, which fl.owed by day and nia-ht"
75); and after her fal.l "6utal.a je uporno, provode6i
dan za danom kod prozora, nad vodom" ("she maintained
her stubborn silence, spendina- day after day by the
window, above the water" 76).
The sentence which forms the headina- for Chapter
Three mirrors the refrain which is associated with Vuk's
vision of the stars, "Beskrajn1,' pl.avi krua-. U njemu,
av.afl.... However, there 11 an 1mportant differeftoe,
The centre of Vuk's symbolic representation of the
future has a star at its centre.
Whereas, Darina 1s
more closely linked with the symbol of the river,
eastina- her shadow into it •. She combines an imaa-e of
time with the duality of self. The river comes to
OCCUpy an important position in her l.ife in Aran4el's
house.
After spendina the niaht with Aran4el. she
dreams that Vuk comes down the river threatenina- hers
Iznemoa-l.oj od bdenja, umornoj i bednoj,
uplaleno~ i zamill~ano~. u~inilo ~oj aa
da zaspala, bal kada ualeda, pod prozorom
kako joj ide po vodi mu., aav obliven
krvl.ju i mokar; neobu~eni i neo~e.ljani
VukIsakovi~. sa oaromnom batinom u ruci,
koja je dopirala do tavanica (77).
Exhausted from her viail, tired and
wretched, fria-htened and absorbed in
thouaht. she seemed to fal.l asleep just
when she spied her husband under the
window comina- alona the water,·. covered in
_blood and wett undressed and tousled Vuk
Isakovi~, with a huae rod in his hand
which reached to the roof.
The obvious phallic threat is Dafina's punishment for
transaressina- the promise she made to Vuk when she
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