“Simultaneous coexistence” of events in eternity in the novel “The Brothers Karamazov”

. The author justifies the necessity to include the category of “simultaneous coexistence” (Bakhtin) of events in eternity for the research of artistic space, this simultaneity is considered through explicit and implicit levels. Events of “simultaneous coexistence” aim to instate the reality of the event in its correlation with a vertical chronotope. An important example of such a category the author finds in oxymoron constructions, revealed in the formula “concordia discors”. This formula was described by Alain de Lille, applying to the medieval courteous novel. Through the prism of this formula, in the novel “The Brothers Karamazov” such oppositions, as “love-hate”, “high-low”, “evil-good”, “cheerful-sad”, “life-death” were revealed. The brevity of the tension between two oppositions, a brief moment coexists with relatively constant models of characters behavior. One may say that those formulas become examples of contraction of “eternity” in the moment. In conclusion the author gives an explanation, why “simultaneous coexistence” of events in eternity determines the specificity of its artistic space in a polyphonic novel. The artistic spaсe creating depends on the type of character and his desire to reach the level of a supreme reality of the vertical chronotope; the narrator plays a secondary role.

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