TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
Ijubavima i ne ~ovorimo - pa da sretan
~ovek postane nesretan, kao da sretan
nikad nije bio (108).
That was all in the past, it had passed
forever.
That which ·~trAck him most,
when he remembered it, was the
transcience of human happiness, even in
that past life. Human happiness was so
unstable. It was enou~h for some sudden
mi~ration. some illnes. in the house.
some famil~ accident,' an unspoken
quarrel. a debt to a debtor, a lack of
mone~ - and not to menti.on unhapp~ love
for a happ~ man to become unhapp~, as if
he had never been happ~.
Pavle transfers his feelin~s
of insecuritv at the
transience of life to the future, and even to the
prospects that await him and his cousins in Russia, ttNa
tom putu Isakovi~. prvi put, po~e da se pita, kud li
sad, ion. i nje~ovi
bratenci, idu7 tt (ttOn his journev.
Isakovi~, for the first time, be~an to ask himself where
were he and his cousins now ~oin~7tt 109). His
questionin~
of what fate awaited him in Russia stands in
stark contrast to the Russia which was part of his
mvthic consciousness:' "Ono Ito mu se ~inilo
neprolazno,
bila je ta nje~ova
!elja da ode i da se pojavi u Rosiji.
da se tamo odseli" (ttThat which appeared to him
intransient was the desire of his to ~o
aw~ and to
appear in Russia. to mierate there tt 110).
Pavle lives with two senses of his beine-in-time.
One is a mvth1c consciousness that presents the world
and his role in it as consubstantial, and in which he
has a purpose.
It is a picture of an immutable realitv,
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