TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER SIX
iz~leda
da se taj rat nastavi. uskoro" ("to prepare the
troops. which will ~o to war. a~ainst Prussia.. There is
a possibility that the war will be continued. soon"
117) • The Russian authorities are only interested in
their ability to ~i~ht ~or Russia:
Kostjurin jet to~ kasno~. zimsko~. dana.
~odine 1753. u Kijevu. !eleo samo da se
uveri u mo~u6nost pretvaranje tih
doseljenika. u ritama. u staja6u vojsku.
koju je Rosija. tih ~odina, stvarala. i
za rat pripremala (118).
Kostjurin. on that late winter's day in
1753. in Kiev. wanted only to make sure
o~ the possible conversion o~ these
newcomers. dressed in ra~s. into a
standin~ army which Russia was buildin~
up in those years. and preparin~ ~or war.
Pavle sees a vision o~
Russia in which "ovo nije bila
Rosija kojoj se nadao. to je bio neki o~romni
Garsuli.
koji je imao lice. sad Sevi~evo.
sad Kostjurinovo. sad
Tritunovo" ("this was not the Russia ~or
which he hoped.
it was a hu~e
Garsuli. who had a tace. now like Sevi~.
now Kostjurin. now Tri~un" 119). Russia is no lon~er a
vision ot his hopes or mythic consciousness. but is
associated with the Austrian and Russian o~~icials.
and
with the Serb who encoura~ed
them to come to Russia.
The tate o~
Pavle and his cousins is beinc
reculated by a continental consciousness then be~innin~
to emerce amoncst the courts o~ Europe. The Austrians
no lon~er ~icht the Turks.
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and "sad se radilo 0
cranicama carstva. 0 iml. peratriai li~no. 0 Be~u. 0
"-""
Austriji. 0 Evropi" ("now the matter concerned the