IMAGES OF TIME IN RASUL GAMZATOV’S BOOK “MY DAGESTAN”

Abstract

The article analyzes the category of time in a work of fiction as an important component of the chronotope. The images of time are considered, which makes it possible to identify and characterize the problems raised in this book. The works of M.M. Bakhtin, Yu.M. Lotman, V. Toporov, D.S. Likhachev and others serve as the theoretical and methodological basis of the study. In addition, the author of the work relies on the research of Dagestani literary critics: S.H. Akhmedov, K. Abukov, K. Sultanov. They scientifically cover the issues of genre originality, the specifics of problems of Rasul Gamzatov’s book “My Dagestan”. Various characteristics of this literary concept are given. A general analysis of the category of time in literary works, an excursus of the literary term “time” is given. Definitions of the artistic time of Yu.M. Lotman and M.M. Bakhtin are given. The article considers time as the hero of Rasul Gamzatov’s book “My Dagestan”, as it changes in the work. Time in “My Dagestan” is dynamic. The predominance of open temporary images is noted.