The idyllic worldbuilding in the short story by Nikolai Gogol "The Old World Landowners"
Journal: Literature and Culture of Polissya
Year: 2019

The article discusses the idyllic worldbuilding in the short story by Nikolai Gogol "The Old-World Landowners". The author of the article proves that the "bucolic life" of old-world landowners is closely related to an idyllic chronotope, in which the idyllic spatial world of two old people is secluded, isolated, distant from the "external" world, it is distinguished by integrity and completeness. The article notes that the structure of literary space and time in this work is annular: the space n