The chronotopos of a communal flat in the prose by Yu.Mamleev

Specificity of the prose written by the modern Russian writer Yu.Mamleev is considered. The chronotopos of a communal flat, a special attribute of Soviet everyday life, is regarded by the authors of the article as one of the most significant symbol of presentation of Soviet culture, found in the prose by Russian postmodernists. In this aspect research of the collection of short stories "Black Mirror" allowed them to reveal a special, paradoxical kind of artistic space, created by Yu. Mamleev - a space deformed and deforming, a kind of "anti-space" or, in V. Toporov's terms, "a minus space".