Performance functions of the flashback category in artistic text

In the article, on a scientific and theoretical basis, the performing functions of the category of retrospection in a literary text are revealed. In order to comprehensively study the category of retrospection, it is not enough to analyze only its structural (formal) aspect, it should be considered in an in-depth study, as part of a holistic text, in its dynamic aspect. The retrospective category is a functional-stylistic category; in its analysis, the main goal is to consider its linguistic means, spatial structure, and functional aspect. The originality of the functions of the category of retrospection lies in the issue of a communicative-cognitive plan (to achieve an adequate understanding of the text) and the law of logical (artistic) thinking, i.e. the presence of an “old” concept, which is generalized and emphasized in the course of a logical discussion in the dynamics of the verbal-thinking process.