TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
~or all o~ them ~rom poverty. ~rom wretchedness. ~rom
tyranny. from humiliation and pain" 94).
His vision of
Russia is a salvation.
However. althouch he appears to
be continuinc Vuk Isakovi~'s
dream in Seobe. there is
a difference between their views of what Russia offers
to the Serbs. Pavle hopes to continue as before. He
explains this toone of the officials he meets on his
wsv, ViJnjevski:
Posle sveca Ito su on. i njecovi
bratenci, videli, otkad su izilli iz
svoje Servije, oni imaju jol same jednu
!elju. Oa se pojave imenom svojim i
sabljom svojom, u rosijskoj armiji. kad
rosijske armije u rat krenu. 2ele da
!ivot zavrle, a ne !ele da sa ponova
otPo~inju. To svojoj deci i svom nacionu
ostavljaju. Za njih je dockan da opet
po~nu. Oni !ele joJ samo da svoje
familije nasele, tamo. cde se i druci
njihovi sunarodnici, u Rosiji,
naseljavaju - u provinciji zovomaja Nova
Se rv i j a (95).
After every thine which he and his cousins
have seen since they lett their Serbia,
they have just one wish. That they
appear with their name and their sword in'
the Russian army. when the Russian armies
co to war. They want to finish their
lives, and they do not want to becin them
acain. They are leavinc that to their
children and people. It's too late tor
them to besin aaain. They want just to
mOve their families. there. where their
other fellow-countrvmen are' movinc. in
Russia - in the province called New
Serbia.
Vilnjevski is considered a "bivli Srbin" ("former Serb"
96) by Pavle., He has lost all contact with the nation
and is dismissive of Pavie's view ot the clorious days
of the Serbian Empire "0 kcm nikc niiSe ~uo
pre, i koje
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