The category of "time" as a component of the national specifics of the text (on the examples of L. Leonov, Vs. Ivanov and Isaac Babel)

The problem of national-cultural identity of a literary work today is one of the most complicated in modern literature. The definition of "markers" that indicate the presence of "alien" culture in a literary text, is a complex task which still have not found its final solution. The article attempts to examine the example of literary works of the leading writers of 1920s. The authors investigates in what ways the category "time" is marked in the text and what national-cultural significance it carries to create the image of an "alien" world on the pages of Russian text.