Rozhkova, N. V. Art and Functional Features of the Chronotope in Hermann Hesse’s Prose

Abstract: The purpose o the present article is to study special features of the chronotope of artistic heritage of Hemann Hesse who used the system of spatial and time references in the anthropological and ontological decision making process. Hesse expressed spatial relations in different forms of movement and his researches of space allowed him to solve anthropological issues while his researches of time allowed the German master of the pen to solve ontological problems. In particular, he attempted at studying the relation between the spiritual, the temporal and the cultural by literary expressive means. The writer touches upon the subject, features and images of space when describing axiosphere of personality or psychological states or processes or studying the vector of development of development of the human inner world. As for the time, the German writer brought forth and solved that problem in terms of ontology. Opposing time to timelessness, the German writer proved the existence of the eternal, pure, creative and divine spirituality and compared it to the existence of culture and personality.

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