TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
the above quotation he emphasises two features of the
luricl "improvisation" and "eternitu".
Theu are labels
which indicate temporal relations.
Improvisation is the
attempt to posit somethine new. Althoueh the noveltu o~
the result mau well be conceived of in an historical
framework with our memoru of previous models and
patterns, it represents a potential oriein.
Eternitu
has no beeinnine nor end available to conception and
mind.
Rhuthm mediates between these two poles.
Eternitu is a coal which cannot be attained, but its
relationship to the potential ori~in
offered in each new
moment eives a sense 'of stabilitu within continual
chan~e. Crn~anski's view of cuclic time is one which is
re~enerative, in that the be~innin~s and ends of cucles
are not returns to the same point, but returns to the
search for ori~in and resolution. As such theu are
returns to the search for a form of salvation.
In manu wavs the principle o~
rhuthm is
complementaru to the principle of simultaneitv.
He
links rhuthm to thou~ht, ~eelin~, and word:
Ritam ~e u misli i u ose~a~u. On ~e kao
ljubavni Aapat kad svaka re~ ima svoj
dah, svoju beju. svoje trajanje.
Rhuthm is in thoueht and in feelin~. It
is like a lever's whisper when each word
has :Lts own breath, its own colour. its
owo duration.
And. as with simultaneitu. rhuthm isolates a sense of
the individual's essential bein~
in what Crnjanski terms
the "soul",
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