CHRONOTOPOS OF CHILDHOOD IN THE VILLAGE PROSE
The article examines the world of childhood, individual and author’s peculiarities of the literary chronotopos of childhood as an integral component of the formation of the picture of the world in the village prose are highlighted. For the analysis of the chronotopos of childhood the value characteristics of time and space opposition are defined, their literary specificity consisting in the motive of childhood (V. Astafyev), in the child’s fates (V. Belov), in the image of home, metaphorically absorbing in it all the dearest. (F. Abramov) is revealed.