Text temporal category realization in the story by V. P. Astafiev «Captured canon»

The article is devoted to disclosing the peculiarities of the text temporal category in the story «Captured Canon» by V. P. Astafiev. The Temporal dimension of narration is determined issuing from the reference point of the described events and the meanings which appear in the text on the basis of interaction between the semantic character of tense-aspect verb forms, on the one hand, and other elements of the context (lexical time specifiers, indicators of cyclic and historical time), on the other one.