LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF THE CATEGORY OF TIME (ON THE BASIS OF K. VONNEGUT’S NOVEL “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of linguistic features of the category of time in the artistic postmodern text. The special role of the category of time in postmodern literature makes its further study necessary, which determines the relevance of this article. The research material is Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse-Five”, which for the first time becomes the subject of the most complete study in terms of story and plot organization and time relations in the text. The results of the carried out analysis show that the story and plot in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel do not coincide, textual anachronies (flashback and flashforward), methods of compression or stretching the time are reflected in the text, which together form the unique individual author’s representation of time.