The narrative and fable time and his folk-lore-mythopoetical base in the novel “In forests” by P. I. Melnikov-Pechersky

Abstract

The multi-layeredness of the novel genre make it possible in one work of art to unite the features, which are characteristic to a historical, ethnographic and adventure novel. The investigation of the structural-semantical integrity of the novel “In forests” by P. I. Melnikov-Pechersky has shown that multi-layeredness is the main principle not only of the narrative, intriguing-compositional structure, but also a spatial-temporal organization of the novel. The specific features of the narrative and fable aspects have been analyzed for the determine specificity of the chronotope and for the revealing the originality of the genre structure of the novel “In forests”.

The article makes an attempt to show that a spatial-temporal structure of the novel “In forests” by P. I. Melnikov-Pechersry is grows on the basis of the myth of creation and the stylized tales about the sun Yarilo that extend the chronological framework of the novel deep into the historical past.