Those Who Came, Are Coming, Will Come : Reflections of the Landscape and Time in "A School for Fools" by Sasha Sokolov

Abstract

The article deals with time and space structures in Sasha Sokolov's novel A School for Fools. It concentrates on three main parts: the narrator's bifurcated point of view and compositional characteristics of the story resulting from his "selective memory" as well as his perception of time; a narrative logic of his imagination and dreams constituting the novel's main space relations; and finally the "geometrical layers" created by the relationships between individual characters of the story, their attitudes and worldviews.

Keywords

• theory of narration
• plot
• story
• time and space relations
• selective memory
• bifurcated point of view
• narrative logic of dreams
• literary topos of a border