Prostranstvo i vremja v povesti Andreja Belogo “Kotik Letaev”

This work focuses on spatial and temporal aspects of the autobiographical novel of Andrej Belyj in connection with his own epistemology. In the destiny of the character of Belyj traces growth and transformation of consciousness of the child. Kotik Letaev interprets the world as alien to him and incomprehensible, and tries to protect himself, substituting reality for the play of the infantile imagination. The world, in the spirit of extreme solipsism, is declared as a product of character's consciousness. Space and time become the object for the intellectual manipulations. In the letter of 01.03.1927 to Ivanov-Razumnik Belyj wrote about existence of a memoir, psychological and mystical layers of the novel. The time of memory, dominating in the novel, breaks fundamental prohibitive property of physical time - irreversibility. The concept of reincarnation allows Belyj to describe Kotik Letaev as “the old man of non-our world.” Time before the birth belongs to the country of rhythms, where temporary components prevails over spatial according to the idea of Belyj’s article “The form of art” (1902). The multilevel spatial and temporal design of the novel transmutes reminiscence into the fascinating play helping the character of the novel to force out the phobias of existence.