Chronotope of a county estate in the story оf A.P. Chekhov “Name Day”

About the author

Tinatin M. Do Egito (Moscow, Russia), lecturer of “Language of cinema”, “Semiotics” in the international film school No. 40.

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Abstract

In the short story “The Name Day” by A.P. Chekhov is dominated by the social function of the heroes, everything personal, on the contrary, is crushed, like Olga Mikhailovna’s child, squeezed by a corset. The baby dies and with it dies the hope of procreation. A county estate that is not destined to become a family clan estate is the main image (and at the same time the main message) of the enlightenment. Here, an im- portant motive for the doom of this world is formed for Chekhov, which will receive its DOI: 10.22455/978-5-9208-0627-7-28-35 29 further development in “The Seagull” and “The Cherry Orchard”. Initially, this world, given by the spatiotemporal axis, looks tiny, closed, provincial, but gradually grows into a history of universal order, where global tendencies are reflected in the small local life of an individual estate and its inhabitants.