TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
to m1x w1th the imp~ess10ns
which the chance meet1ne
with his f'~1end had lef't. and he w~ites that "moje
mis11. jednako su jo. p~at11e moe d~uea na njeeovom
putovanju" (ltmv thouehts. thev continued to f'ollow mv
f'~1end on h1s jou~nev"). He ~ecalls the distant seas
and islands wh1ch had been ment10ned. ref'lectines
Najzad. mi~. mi~ zore. polako je ulaz10 1
u mene. Sve .to je moj d~ue pri~ao. pa i
on sam. poeu~en. u pohabanom. vojni~kom
.1njelu. ostalo je zauvek u mom mozeu.
Odjednom sam se se6ao. i ja. e~adova. 1
ljud1. koje sam ja video. na povratku iz
rata. P~vi put pr1met1h neku oeromnu
promenu u svetu.
At last. the peace. the peace of' the
dawn. slowlV ente~ed me. Evervthine
which mv f'riend had said. and he himself'
too. stooped. in a shabbv armv ereatcoat.
has remained in mv mind f'orever.
Suddenlv. I too could ~emembe~ the towns
and the people whom I had seen on mv
~eturn :f'~om the wa~. Po~ the f'irst time
I observed a huee chance in the world.
And he repeats to himself' the wo~ds "Sumat~a. Sumatra".
The wo~ds a~e an incantation which exp~ess the
associations which accumulate betWeen himself'. his
immediate su~roundines.
and the places Which his f'riend
had mentioned.
The mineline of' dif'f'erent imp~essions
leads him to pe~ceive a chance in his relationship with ,.'
the wo~ld. A series of' p~eviouslV unrelated people.
incidents. and places have been b~oueht
toaether. and
contrarv to his earlier f'eeline that the~e a~e no points
of' contact in the wo~ld
he ~ema~ks:
Pomislih: kako li 6e me do~ekati moj
zaVi~aj9 Tre.nje su sad svakako ve6
rumene. a sela su sad vesela. Gle. kako
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