Author: Abduxamidova, Dilafruz; Qosimova, Gulnora

Annotation: The article is dedicated to the linguistic and literary analysis of the chronotope reflected in the novel Woman in the Dunes by the famous 20th-century Japanese writer Abe Kobo. The theoretical part of the article examines the approaches of scholars such as J.Piaget, D.Elkin, and A. V. Zaporozhets to the study of the concepts of time and space. Special attention is paid to the theory of chronotope proposed by M.M.Bakhtin, which plays an important role in the analysis of a literary work. Based on this theory, and using examples, the harmonious intertwining of time and space in Abe Kobo's Woman in the Dunes is analyzed. It is revealed that the novel employs a model of cyclical time.

Keywords: chronotope, cyclical time, linear time, limited space, Abe Kobo

Pages in journal: 113 - 121