TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

CHAPTER TWO
writine on the paces. and the readine o~
the text has a
temporal duration. but these are not the objects o~
literar¥ anal¥sis.
The debate over the di~ference
between spatial and
temporal orientation represents two different W8¥S of
thinkine about experience and its perception, as
described b¥ Eneelberes
Space permits subject-object separation.
interpl8¥ between mind and perceived
realit¥1 Time appropriates object into
subject and makes realit¥ a product ot
What Bereson oalled the "oreative
evolution" o~ the mind (37).
In his sumatraism Crnjanski comes closest to describine
a view o~ time as the unit¥ o~ subject and realit¥.
This view denies that time iSI
The medium in whioh people crow.
individuallv and collectivelVI hopes and
ambitions come to fruition or are
dism8¥ed. Events mark the critical point
ot chance. Individual development is
recarded as ot ceneral human importanoe.
and considered lOCi cal in torm: laws ot
Ps¥cholocioal oause and effect. of
interaction between character and
Circumstantial environment. are in
operation (38).
This is a description of social time, which is open to
the loeic o~
ratiOnal investicationl in other words.
when subject and object are separated.
Time is seen
onl~ as the passinc o~ events. each one markinc a stace
in the development of some larcer desien.
The specitic
can be measured acainst the eeneral and evaluated bv
referenoe to it. Time is here linked to values, but
the~
are the values cained from oareful evaluation ot
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