TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
ona jo! vide neko zlatno klasje i brda
Ito se prosu!e kroz zid. zajedno sa
talasima ~ita. ra~i i zobi. sa tavanice.
Zatim sinu!e pred o~ima njenim ~itavi
kolutovi zvezda. plavih. ljubi~astih i
!utih. i preli!e je vanredne mlake yodel
nad kojima su tekla i nebesa. Ciknuv!i
~rozno i sko~iv!i uvis. ona se na4e. lice
u lice. s mu!em. krvavim i u~asnim i
u~leda pred sobom Vuka Isakovi~a. koji se
raspadao. Tako se u~leda. u snu. stra!ni
neki medved. kad se be!e6i iz !ume. od
vukova. iznenada. istr~i pred neku stenu
(80).
When the wall behind the apparition be~an
to swav. she could still see some ~olden
~rain and the hills which poured throu&h
the wall. toeether with waves of wheat,
rve and oats from the ceiline. Then.
whole circles of blue. violet and vellow
stars flashed before her eyes. and
wonderful warm waters washed over her,
above which the skies floated. With a
terrible shriek she jumped into the air
and found herself face to face with her
bloodv and horrible husband. she caueht
.i~ht of Vuk Isakovi~ before her, who was
disinte&ratin&. So one sees in a dream.
aome terrible bear. when fleein& from the
forest, awav from wolves, suddenlv. run
before a cliff.
Dafina then falls as a reSUlt of which she dies. and the
child which she is carrvin& dies with her.
Ironicallv.
the ~enealoeical
imperative to become the father which
has driven Vuk on is denied him bv Dafina.
BV bein& SUbject to the world of historv and
culture which inscribes the values of male tradition
into time. Dafina lives outside the time of Aran&el and
YukI She cannot brin~ an order to bear on time which is
ultimatelv for her a continual process of deeeneration
towards death.
As she approaches death the time is
specified as a chart of her proaress in her final hours:
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