Концепция времени и события в романе Григория Служителя Дни Савелия

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the chronotope (relation between time and space) and literary time diversity in contemporary Russian literature on the basis of Grigoriy Sluzhitel’s The Savely’s Days. Martin Heidegger’s concept of event (Ereignis) related to the temporal structure of the text is analysed as well. Different configurations of literature time were described. The author examined: 1) real historical time on a social scale; 2) lifetime of a particular person; 3) time of everyday life divided into periods of work and recovery; 4) idyllic time as well as a period of crisis; 5) one’s inner perception of time, including memories and the oneiric time. It was discovered that the borders between different layers of time in The Savely’s Days, Sluzhitel’s first novel, are conditional and permeable. Time in the novel is not only a category of literature, but one of the most significant concepts, as it becomes an object of the main character’s (cat Savely’s) reflection. In addition, the issue of memory and memories as well as literary time-space relations was analysed.