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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER SIX<br />

based on the values ot the Kosovo mvth.<br />

The second is<br />

his lite in a ~ea1ity<br />

which is constantly chan~in~<br />

shape and "koja biva sasvim d~uk~ija, ne~o Ito je nala<br />

vo1ja !e1i da bude" ("which is completely ditte~ent<br />

t~om<br />

the one that ou~ will wants it to be" 111). This second<br />

pictu~e ot ~ea1ity has no ima~e ot the p~esent, but ot<br />

d~eams to~ the tutu~e and a past which is i~~ecove~able.<br />

As Pav1e thinks ot the voices which spu~<br />

him into action<br />

he asks:<br />

Oa 1i sa zvezda?<br />

Ili, iz nale~ prolloe !ivota i<br />

nalih uspomena.<br />

Ili su vesti iz budu6nosti, koja<br />

nam se sp~ema. bez nale~ znanja. p~otiv<br />

nale vo1je i sasvim d~u~a~ija, ne~o Ito<br />

se 0~ekiva1a (112).<br />

Are they trom the sta~s9<br />

O~. t~om our past lite and ou~<br />

memories.<br />

o~ a~e they news trom thetutu~e,<br />

which is bein~ prepared tor us, without<br />

our know1ed~e, a~ainst ou~ will and<br />

completely ditterent to what was<br />

expected.<br />

In the second picture ot ~eality,<br />

Pavle has no sense ot<br />

bein~<br />

in the present, since as Christopher Norris<br />

comments "time is an endless deterrin~<br />

ot presence"<br />

(113). As time is denied entry.into the present, but<br />

remains in some realm ot dream, past. or tuture, so<br />

the~e is no authentic selt to be discove~ed in the<br />

p~esent. Time divides selt trom a knowled~e ot the<br />

selt. The p~esent<br />

is "a moment compounded ot manitold<br />

~etentions and anticipations. neve~ existine in the<br />

isolated instant ot awa~eness" (114). P'u~thermo~e. it<br />

323

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