CHRONOTOP OF THE NOVEL BY I. S. SHMELEV "SUMMER OF THE LORD"
This article deals with the problem of I. S. Shmelev's use in the novel "Summer of the Lord" of a special artistic technique - chronotop, based on the combination of spatial and temporal characteristics when reproducing the events of the past through the lyrical feelings of the author-narrator. In the analysis special attention is paid to the religious and spiritual side of personality, the formation of which is shown in the novel in the neorealist tradition, attracting both traditional and innovative visual techniques, which are reflected in the structural-compositional and linguistic features of the work. Synthesizing in his novel many of the artistic achievements of predecessors, I. S. Shmelev creates a unique example of such a work, in which a photographically accurate nostalgia is intertwined with spiritual and edifying religiosity, which forms the basis of the author's philosophy and moral beliefs. The memories and impressions of the main character's childhood are connected with religious and moral themes, which may indicate the use by I. Shmelev in the novel "The Summer of the Lord" a whole system of Christian-Orthodox subjective chronotopes, based on both faith in God and faith in the best qualities of a person.