The role of artistic time in German exile novel chronotope

The paper analyzes how artistic time functions in German exile novel of the 1930-1970s. The research is based on the novels by E. M. Remarque, L. Feuchtwanger, K. Mann. The author shows the correlation of space and time organization in these novels and the artistic space's influence on time oppositions. She also proves space organization to have determined artistic time, contrary to the commonly held view that time, not space plays the leading role in literary works. Moreover, the author considers mythological implications of time models found in exile novels.