TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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sad odlaze. Prva velika prevara. koju su
do!iveli. u njoj. bila je §to su ih.
stalno. varali obecanjima. da ce se u
Serviju vratiti~ Zatim su videli da su
samo ajlu~d!ije u toj vojsci (86).
And he told him that he was born in 1715.
and that he be~an to see the world and
the wars with his own e~es. from the ~ear
1735. when the~ were admitted into the
Austrian ar~. which the~ are now
leavin~. The first major deception which
the~ experienced in the ar~ was that
.the~ were constantl~ deceived b~ promises
that the~ would return to Serbia. Then
the~ saw that the~ were oni~ mercenaries
in that ar~.
Pavle continues to outline that when the~
crossed the
frontier into Austria with numerous others. the Isakovi~
famil~ were amon~st the leaders in the emi~ration.
Ever~one the~ brou~ht with them came "da !ivi na oru!ju"
("to live b~ their weapons" 87). Pavle is less
concerned with the new historical positions of the
European Powers than with the militar~
traditions which
are part of the Serbian herita~e.
He believes that the~
will continue that tradition in Russia. "Tamo 6e biti.
svi. vojnici. Isakovi~i !ele da umru kao vojnici. u
bici. A. ne u postelji. kao sindikusi. tr~ovci. pisari.
~aziblate" ("There the~ will all be soldiers. The
Isakovi~es
want to die like soldiers in battle. And not
in bed. -like bureaucrats. merchants. clerks,
Pavle sees the honour and the existence of the
nation at stake.
What faces them in Austria is worse
than the~ faced in Serbia under the Turks. The~ f'ace a
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