Fiction Space and Time in Victor Kolupaev's Fantastic Story "Dzyapiki" (1989)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the work of the Tomsk science fiction writer, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR Viktor Dmitrievich Kolupaev (1936-2001). The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the representation of the category of fiction space and time in the poetics of the fiction writer's short prose based on the novella "Dzyapiki" (1989). The theoretical basis of the research was made up of works devoted to the consideration of the spatio-temporal organization of the literary text in science fiction works. The practical significance of the article is that its materials and general conclusions can be used in the study of the history of Russian literature and Soviet fiction, regional literature in the framework of special courses. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the study of the spatio-temporal organization of Kolupaev's short prose, as well as in the involvement of a previously unexplored novella as a research material, which is important for understanding the originality of the author's fiction world. The three-part chronotope system is defined and analyzed, the originality of the time travel plot used for traditional science fiction in order to reveal social issues is revealed. Three chronotopes (the epoch of the Dziapiks, real time and their mixing), the characteristic features of which are represented in the landscapes and characters allow us to depict the shortcomings of the system that negatively affects a person.