CONCEPTUALIZATION OF TIME IN ADOLESCENCE OF ALESHA ARSENIEV (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE 2ND BOOK OF THE NOVEL “THE LIFE OF ARSENIEV” BY I.A. BUNIN)

Abstract

The article analyzes the second book of the autobiographical novel by I.A. Bunin’s “The Life of Arseniev” from the standpoint of ways of artistic implementation of the concept of “time” as an important component of the child’s worldview in adolescence. The authors focus on the peculiarities of children’s perception of the time continuum, identifying the ways and techniques of its creation in the text. Making contact with the first book of the novel, the authors of the article reveal the dependence of perception and awareness of time as a world-modeling category on the adolescence age. The analysis of the second book of the novel “The Life of Arseniev” provides an opportunity to draw a conclusion regarding the life of the main character, which takes place in various spatio-temporal projections: social-historical, family-household, natural-cyclic, biographical, and also fits into the temporal structure of the chronotope of Eternity.