The Chronotope of the Narrator in N. Abgaryan’s Novel Manyunya (Book 1)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the chronotope of the autobiographical narrator in N. Abgaryan’s novel Manyunya (Book 1). The authors examine the features of the construction of time and space in the text, drawing on M. M. Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope as well as contemporary research on autobiographical prose. The focus is on the figure of the narrator, who simultaneously participates in past events and re-counts them, engaging in complex spatiotemporal relationships with the character, the reader, and the author-creator. The article pays special attention to the nonlinear composition of the novel: the chap-ters consist of separate memories, not linked by a single plotline, which brings the structure of the stories in Manyunya closer to the anecdotal genre. Linguistic play, ironic modality, and lively dialogue with the reader reinforce this analogy. The study concludes that the narrator’s chronotopic mobility and interaction with various levels of the text create a unique genre specificity for the work, while also contributing to the construction of the myth of childhood and the Soviet past.