TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
His rriend told him or the camp in the Urals where he
had been imprisoned, and or his lone ~ournev
which had
taken him via Japan and Enc1and.
these memories are his, rriend's comments on both
immediate and ruture matters.
He savs that his mother
has recently died, and as ror the ruture he expects that
he will eet a job in a bank.
The inconeruity or his
expectations for the ruture with his horriric
experiences or the world war is strikine. This sense of
inconcruitv is oompounded bv a number Of remarks, for
example, the author comments that when he met his rriend
"kra~
mene su. toe dana. pro1azili Seneealci" ("some
Seneealese walked past me on that dav").
,Crnjanski.continued on his journey.
At first. his
thouehts, his meetine with his friend. and the activity
or the people surroundinc him on the train whirl round,
leavine the poet to think "ele, nikakvih veza nema u
svetu" ("look, there are no points of contact in this
world").
The word "veza" ("bond", "link",
"aSSOCiation". "contact") is one of the key words in
Crnjanski's sumatraism.
The word can be ,translated in
many wavs into Knelish, and essentially means a bond in
a physical or abstract sense.
In this scene the poet is
commentine on the lack of coherence between his inner
world and the outer world.
He feels the disjuncture as
a powerful force isolatine himself'from the events
surroundinc h:l.s'lifle.
Gradual1v, his own thouchts becan
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