Spatiotemporal coordinates of the artistic world of N. Abgaryan in the storybook “To live further”

We present the study of spatiotemporal coordinates of the artistic world of N. Abgaryan in the storybook “To live further”, which was not previously the subject of keen interest of researchers. The purpose of the study is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the texts of storybook “To live further” as a whole, identifying the features of the writer’s artistic world through the revealing of its main spatiotemporal categories. We show that the main chronotopes in the studied storybook are “house” and “provincial city of Berd”, the locus of which are closely interrelated and perceived as the world. The key concepts for understanding the artistic world of N. Abgaryan are cultural and ancestral memory, the eternal cycle of existence. The restoration of the war-torn time cycle becomes possible thanks to the activation of cultural memory mechanisms. Ways to restore the cyclic time, disturbed by the war, in the studied storybook is the repeatability of ordinary actions. Actualization of memory is carried out through the thing, name, smell, food. Preservation of memory is associated with changes in the flow of biological time. The silence chosen by N. Abgaryan’s heroes is not only a way of displacing tragic events from memory, but also a new opportunity to experience memories. The emblematic title of the storybook “To live further” leads the reader to the idea that life always defeats death, and the cyclicity of time is the key to world harmony.

time, chronotope, artistic world, N. Abgaryan, cultural memory