Pages: 254-266
Published: 30.03.2026
Abstract: The article analyzes the scientific and theoretical problems of the category of literary space on the sample of Chingiz Aitmatov’ novels and Uzbek writers. The literary space allows us to perceive the relationship between the Universe and man; to organize the plot and compositional construction of a work of art; to create a micro-scale of images in accordance with the type and genre of the work, as well as the individual style of the writer; to create a map of the space in which the events of the work take place. The literary space has two interpretations: external – the territory, the being on which the events of the work take place; internal – the inner world of the characters, the expanses of the psyche. Each Creator creates his own system of spatial representations. The problem of the transformation of real space into perspective, associated with human perception, became the object of literary studies in the XX century. Although the literary space as a separate literary category has long been the focus of attention of scientists, now it is interpreted as a component of the writer's literary world. The art space serves as the “key" to the reader's reception. This becomes important when analyzing the genre approach to the work, the system of motives and leitmotives, elements of the plot-compositional structure, the style of the Creator in an integral system that generates specific figurative forms. The article examines the images of the national-cultural space, that is, the literary space of the work is represented as a house, grass, desert, island, steppe, mountain, etc. The study of the individual space of writers on the basis of system-structural, psychological methods, the influence of the exterior on the interior; through the desert, island, Steppe, sky and mountain space, it was possible to identify parallel images of tolerance, noble qualities of heroes or the approach of depressive, painful states in the psyche of the heroes of the cellar, Chokha, cave. In world literary studies, the literary space, which is an integral part of the chronotope, is interpreted as a compositional element expressing the sequence and intensity of the events of the work, as a literary and aesthetic category that characterizes images and reflects the worldview, the creator's vision of the world structure. Indeed, the creative deep exploration of the literary space, organizing the structure, plot and composition of the work, forming the field of the epic text, ensuring the perception of literary reality in the finished whole, requires a special approach to understanding the aesthetic nature of the work. After all, while the chronotope covers all the elements of the work, it is impossible to show the cycle of events, the mood of the characters without an image of literary time and literary space.
Key words: chronotope, literary time, literary space, external space, internal space, micro-space, macro-space, mega-space, vertical, horizontal, parallelism.
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