The article examines the specifics and artistic function of the chronotope in Yuri Williamovich Kozlov's novel "The Desert of Adolescence" (1988). The novel is compared with the writer's earlier texts ("The Invention of the Bicycle", "The Happy Possibilities of the Swing", "Our Time"), as well as with the works of Lev Kassil ("Conduit and Schwambrania") and William Kozlov ("The President of the Stone Island"), in which a fictional country plays a plot-forming role. Not only similarities are revealed, but also differences in the construction of these works. The article explores the idea of the mythological worldview and the ways of its expression in modern verbal creativity. The conclusion is made about the belonging of Yuri Kozlov's novel "The Desert of Adolescence" to "magical realism", which implies an in-depth study of the interaction of space-time parameters of two worlds created by the author: the world of everyday (real) and the world of fictional (fantasy). The complexity and dualism of this interaction create the ground for different interpretations of the semantic 56 structure of the work. There is a need to look at the novel by Yu.V. Kozlov's connection is not so much with the concept of "dream countries" as with the realization of mythological consciousness in general. The study of the spatial-temporal relations of the novel, the system of images and motives allows us to rethink the experience of myth-making, to reveal the characters and their conflicts in the special social conditions of the late Soviet period. The main result of the analysis carried out by the author of the article is the identification of three spatial and temporal levels in Yuri Kozlov's novel "The Desert of Adolescence", which are in a state of dynamic correlation and form an integral artistic system.
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