Principle of puzzle: language and chronotop in M. Shishkin's prose

The article is devoted to study of the poetics of the prose by Mikhail Shishkin's, the brightest Russian prose-writer of the XXth century. The analysis of his works reveals the specific tendencies typical of the modern prose (narration of a large story, inclination to mixture of evidences and functionality and others) and the unique ones typical of the writer's style.