TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
future in which they will be ntuc!i paori,na tuc!oj
zemljin (nalien serfs on alien land n 89).
The issue
confronts the whole nation:
Njih su austrijski c!enerali zvali, da
prec!u na hril6ansku stranu, da five u
hril6anstvu - a ~de je to hril6anstvo?
Nisu izi~rani samo Isakovi~i, svi su oni
prelli na nesre6u. Velika je to prevara
(90) •
The Austrian ~enerals invited them to
cross over to the Christ.ian side, to live
in Christianity - and where is that
Christianity. Not only the Isakovi~es
were tricked, they all crossed over into
unhappiness. It is a ~reat deception.
Pavle. is stru~~lin~ a~ainst a new historical epoch from
which he feels alienated.
His views of honour, and the
military tradition of the Serbs be10n~
to a culture
which is at odds with the politics of his day.
En~elshofen, to a certain de~ree, reco~nises this
view in his remark on the si~nificance
of the Battle of
Kosovo.
He reflects on the Serbian national memory:
Mec!utim, ako primete da ih la!u i varaju,
da im data re~ nije odr!ana, to pamte. U
stole6at .
Sa Turcima se - tvrdio ;Ie
En~elshofena - nose oko neko~ Kosova
(En~elshofen ;Ie pisao: Cassova) ve6 nekih
trista leset ~odina. Serbi ne
zaboravljaju! (91).
However, if they notice that they are
bein~ lied to and deceived. that a
promise is not kept, they remember it.
For centuries!
With the TUrks - En~e1shofen
confirmed - they have been ·hDf'h~e;,;t ..
about some Kosovo (En~e1shofen wrote:
Cassova) for some three hundred and sixty
years. The Serbs do not for~ett
Pavle's hopes for ~oin~
to Russia derive from the defeat
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