About the author:
Yevgeny A. Kostin, DSc in Philology, Professor, independent researcher, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Abstract:
The article analyzes the phenomenon of chronotope with respect to M. Sholokhov’s novel And Quiet Flows the Don. The features of Sholokhovian chronotope are related to the intermediate position which the novel occupies between the two cultural epochs specific to Russian literature — between the classical novel forms and the new type of tragical epic literature created by the writer, with its considerable insertions of mythology and folklore. The elements of Sholokhovian chronotope — the time and the topos — play an important role as regards the semantics of the main conflicts rendered in the novel. To a certain extent, it is impossible — without taking into account the peculiarities of the chronotope — to analyze adequately the fate and the vicissitudes of Grigory Melekhov, the main character of the novel And Quiet Flows the Don.