Чужое пространство и эсхатологическое время в хронотопе с сылки (на примере писем Юозапаса Cильвестраса Довидайтиса)

Abstract

The article presents the experience of adapting the concept of a chronotope in a specific sociocultural context. The relevance of the study is due to the need to develop methods for analyzing utilitarian and quasi-utilitarian verbal practices, taking into account the specific spatio-temporal circumstances of their implementation. The study material is letters from Juozapas Silvestras Dovydaitis, a Lithuanian priest who spent several years in Siberian exile. The explicit model of the chronotope determines the choice of the material—the chronotope of exile, as defined by the authors of the article, which also determines the acceptable level of the results obtained. The subject-matter of the study is the chronotope as a sociocultural phenomenon. The chronotope in the article is presented as an event of the interaction of valuebased, spatial and temporal attitudes of the author’s consciousness in the process of creating an epistolary text. The features of the subject-matter determined the correlative method of the research. The authors proceed from the fact that the external change in the spatial configuration— the exile—leads to the transformation of the value-based experience of space. The value- based experience of distinguishing space between the author’s space and the alien’s one is overcome by the imaginary achievement of a point of view equally equidistant with respect to the distinguished spaces. In Dovydaitis’s letters, this overcoming is carried out in lyrical digressions devoted to understanding his own changed position and perspectives. The imagined overcoming of the psychological inertia of distinguishing space between the author’s own and that of an alien correlates with overcoming the psychological inertia of time delay, which leads to the formation of an eschatological perception of time.[...]