TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
said to Garsuli that he aea.,-tr sr"ooft. ed his
silky. blonde moustache. as was his hab:1.t" 103)..
Pavl.e
had not shown any dishonour or shame when arrested. and
his character would not break under the strain of
incarceration.
Pavle's sense of time passin~
cont:1.nues and is
measured purely by chan~ea
in consc:1.ousness:
Sve Ito je mocao da ~uje •. i v:1.d:1.. bile su
nje~ove misli. ali su one proletale brzo
kao laste. a ~inile su se zelene. crvene.
a prskal.e au kroz nje~ovu ~lavu. kao
varn:1.ce. Sede6i u crvenim. utecnutim
~aklirima 1 beloj kolulj1. do pasa.
drhtao je (104).
Everythin~ which he could hear. and see.
were h1s thou~hts. but they flew quiCkly
by like swallows, and appeared ~reen.
red. and flew throuch his head. like
sparks. S1tt1n~ in his red. t:1.~ht
trousers and white shirt. open to the
waist. he trembled.
He reflects on what is happenin~
outside the pr:1.son.
where sprin~ is comin~. in stark contrast to h:1.a
surroundincs in prison.
He considers the Serbs' trek
from Serbia into Austria. and the:1.r possible return or
further em~~ration
to Russia. he thinks abOut his
cousins and his family. and he thinks of his wife who
died the previous year ~:1.v1n~
b:1.rth prematurely:
Ona je bila mrtva ve6 vile od ~od1nu
dana. umrla na poro4aju. kao 1 njeno
dete, Ito je trebala. u sedmom mesecu. da
rod:1.. Pavle 0 njoj nikad nije ~ovor:1.o 1
bila je 11~ezla 1z njecovocse6anja. iz
nje~ovih misli. On nije imao nilta
prot1v nje. ali taj brak n:1.je b10 iz
ljubav:1. :1. ona mu se ~:1.nila. kao
do!1vljaj, bezna~ajna (105).
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