TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
is ~elt in the link between the ideal ori~in and
resolution. Vu~kovi6, describes it as "ritam disanja i
pulsiranja, a ne shema" ("the rhvthm o~ breathin~ and
pulsatin~, and not a desi~n" 42). Rhvthm has no pattern
bV which to measure the pro~ression o~ chan~e, but like
simultaneitv is an inner experience. The chan~es which
occur in an individual's li~e
cannot be defined in
advane, and Crnjanski repeats in"his commentaries and in
his novel Dru~a
knji&a seoba that what happens in li~e
occurs accordin~ to "slu~aj" ("chance" 43). Crnjanski's
principle o~ rhvthm indicates an apprehension o~ the
"quakes" as thev occur. It is not the experience o~
the
moment itsel~, but what Kermode terms kairos as "a
point in time ~illed with 'si~ni~icance, char~ed with a
meanin~ derived ~rom its relation to its end" (44).
BV combinin~ the principles o~ simultaneitv and
rhvthm ~rom
they re~lect
Crnjanski's two earlv essavs we can see how
each other, and how thev claritv each
other. He privile~es simultaneitv as an experience o~
.
the moment, at the same time as he announces the
dramatic chan~e takin~ place in sensibilitv. However.
his view of simultaneitv does not allow ~or chance. On
the other hand. chan~e
and diversity is celebrated in
rhvthm both in terms o~ ~orm and what the rhvthm o~ free
verse can express, when Crnjanski remarks in his essav
"Za slobodni stih" that "Ialost i radost primamo u istom
l'itmu" ("we accept sadness and happiness in the same
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