TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
Ber~son,
as for Crnjanski, each moment is a unique
experience of thouahts, memories, and perceptions, which
will never be repeated a~ain.
Even when the same object
is the object ot contemplation, the object is altered bv
our consciousness because we have a memorv ot it. The
dvnamic qualitv of consciousness in time is termed real
duration bv Berason. The moment for Cz-n~anski is
defined bV the intearation of perceptions. emotions. and
memoriea in a ain~le state ot consciousness. The
apprehension of that moment, and its expression is the
path to a sense of beina in the eternal pz-esent. with no
comprehension of past and future.
It is an eXpression
of a universal empathv, when the subject feels at peace
with the world, and feels at one with it. There is a
direct and intuitive bond between self and world
realised in the moment.
The moment is of unspecified
duration. but is characterised bv a dominant mood and
feelina which aive its homoaeneitv.
Crnj anski 's notion of aimu.l tanei tv is at odds with
definitions of time which relv on emprical evidenee, and
with rationalist eXplanations of time.
In the
rationalist view of time. all events whether
pavcholoaioal, the vaauest fliCker of emotion. or
actions performed in the phvsical senae. have an order
in whietr theV occui", . and have an extension in duration.
The pro.ression from'one to anothe:r inCiicates the ends
and be~innin~s of actions, aeparatin~ them into units,
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