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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER SIX<br />

presence and bein2 are denied entry into the present, so<br />

truth and meanin2 can on1y exist inPav1e's mythic<br />

consciousness.<br />

Pav1e's journey to Russia is an ima2e<br />

both o~ the pro2ression o~ his psych0102ica1 1i~e trom<br />

the past into an unknown tuture, and ot the repetition<br />

ot the myth.<br />

Given that the myth denies history, and<br />

historica1 chan2e denies the'presentany meanin2. Pav1e<br />

personities the role ot chance as the link between sel~<br />

and history in the remark that ttslu~aj<br />

je najve6i<br />

komedijant u !ivotu ljudi i naroda" ("chance is the<br />

2reatest actor in the lives ot peop1e and nations" 115).<br />

A similar phrase is used by Crnjanski in his Itaka i<br />

komentari. "S1u~aj<br />

je najve6i komedijant u svetu"<br />

t...t:t:::¥Wed~<br />

("Chance is the 2reatest . r' ln the world" 116).<br />

Pavle's sense of beine-in-time comes into contlict<br />

with the history ot nations and ot economies which have<br />

an interest in his nation.<br />

The interests ot the<br />

Austrian and Russian empires are ot no concern to ~avle.<br />

Similarly. the private desires and nationa1 identity ot<br />

Pavle is ot no concern to them.<br />

He and the Serbs were<br />

a1lowed to be s01diers and ti2ht the Turks. tor as 1on2<br />

as it was in the Habsburc interest tor them to do so.<br />

The Isakovi~<br />

tami1Y meet with a simi1ar response in<br />

Russia.<br />

They are expected to ticht acainst the same<br />

Prussian army that they had to tace tor the AUstrians.<br />

The Russian cenera1 Kostjurin has been ordered "da<br />

priprema trupe. koje 6e i6i u rat. na Prajsku.<br />

Ima<br />

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