SOME WAYS OF LITERARY TIME REPRESENTATION IN THE NOVEL "THE QUIET AMERICAN" BY G. GREENE
The relevance of this article is to study ways of representation of literary time as a textual category, which models the actual reality in the text and its features depending on the writer's point of view. The purpose of the study is to determine the features of literary time and the means of its verbalization in the novel "the Quiet American" by the famous British realist writer G. Greene. Using contextual and interpretative analysis methods, the author determines the retrospective character of the work, which is explicated by means of certain types of verb forms, specific lexical units, and peculiarities of the structural organization of the text as a whole. The analysis revealed that the specificity of literary time at the level of composition is actualized by violating the traditional chronological sequence of events described in the novel. Literary time of the novel is multidimensional and is verbalized by units of both localization and non-localization of action in time. Moreover, it is revealed, that literary time in the investigated novel can slow down or accelerate. The author comes to the conclusion that the slowdown of the narrative in the novel is provided by the inclusion of the descriptive fragments containing the detailed features of appearance, emotions of the characters, places, actions, etc. They refer to signals of non-localization of an action in time but can also be the indicators of point localization, provided that they are focused on the character: if they are limited by the time of his direct perception. Acceleration of the plot development in the novel is achieved through its division, the transition from one chapter to another, with the beginning of a new paragraph. The results of the research presented in the article contribute to solving the problem of systematization of means of literary time verbalization in a literary text and can be used in studying the features of this phenomenon in the works by other authors.