Features of the artistic time in M. A. Kuzmin's novels "The Adventures of Aimé Leboeuf" and "The Journey of Sir John Fairfax through Turkey and other notable countries"

The subject of the research in the article is the peculiarities of artistic time in the novels of M.A. Kuzmin. The object of the research is the novels by M. A. Kuzmin "The Adventures of Aimé Leboeuf" and "The Journey of Sir John Fairfax through Turkey and other notable countries". The purpose of the study is to discover the specific features of time as a chronotope parameter in the artistic space of M.A. Kuzmin's novels. The authors of the article identify a range of tasks: to determine the meaning of the term chronotope, its functions, the role of the category "artistic time" in the binary structure of the chronotope; to analyze the novels of M.A. Kuzmin from the point of view of following literary traditions and innovation in the aspect of subjectivity/objectivity of perception of time by heroes, temporal ways of representing events and their correlation, including types of time in the canvas Romanov.  The methodological tools were made up of a cultural-historical method used within the framework of the chronotopic approach, which allowed for a diachronic analysis of M.A. Kuzmin's novels; structural-descriptive and descriptive-functional methods aimed at researching works from the point of view of the structure and functions of the object. The novelty of the research lies in the use of a chronotopic approach in the analysis of Kuzmin's works with the condition of isolating the category of time, the conceptual category that decodes the author's model of the world, carries out the relationship of the work and the objective world. Such a principle of temporality in the study of M.A. Kuzmin's novels exposed the plot time, the subjective perception of time by the characters, the author's time, revealing the writer's concept, as well as the aspectual and subjective modal properties that form the writer's idiosyncrasy. The results of the study can be used in the disciplines of the humanities cycle in schools, educational institutions of secondary special education, and universities. As a result, the authors of the article came to the following conclusions. M.A. Kuzmin follows literary traditions in understanding the meaning of the artistic chronotope and its functions, highlighting time as the leading principle in the structure of the chronotope, in the embodiment of different forms of time. The writer's innovation is represented by the inclusion of a rapid change of events, the effect of omission, the introduction of inversions into chronology, the use of several forms of time, the subjectivity of the narrative, the creation of a new image of the hero

chronotope, time, genre, ways of storytelling, inversions, concept of man, adventurous time, everyday time, historical time, subjectivity