THE MODELS OF INTERPRETATION OF TIME PROBLEM IN CONTEMPORARY NOVEL: “LAURUS” BY E. VODOLAZKIN, “MIUSSKAYA SQUARE” BY M. GOLUBKOV

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of time in contemporary literature. It studies the models of interpretation of time as a phenomenon on the example of the novels “Laurus” by E. Vodolazkin and “Miusskaya Square” by M. Golubkov. These works demonstrate a convergence in the interpretation of this problem: time as an illusion, simultaneous existence of past, present and future, the combination of linear and non-linear narrative models. But the understanding of the substance of time phenomenon in these novels is deeply different: in “Laurus”, the concept of time is guided by the religious and moral dominant, time is understood as a tool of moral development. In “Miusskaya Square”, the phenomenon of time has a value in and of itself, and one of the key concepts of the novel is the concept of “native time”. It is proved that the problem of time plays very important role in contemporary literary works that continue the modernist tradition.