Satanovska H. Poetics of Chronotope in Works by Marguerite Yourcenar

The object is fictional prose by M. Yourcenar (the novels «Alexis», «A Coin in Nine Hands», «Coup de Grâce», «Memoirs of Hadrian», «The Abyss», collection of essays «Fires» and collection of short stories «Oriental Tales»). The goal is to discover the specificity and dynamics of space and time models in works by M. Yourcenar as content and genre-forming factors. Methods – cultural-historical, structural, mythocritical, intertextual and motive analysis, methods of modern narratology. Basing on the works by M. Yourcenar it is analysed for the first time from the perspective of fictional chronotope as well as it is introduced into the usage of Ukrainian literary studies the novels «Alexis», «A Coin in Nine Hands», «Coup de Grâce», «Memoirs of Hadrian» and the collection «Oriental Tales». The analysis of time and space relations in the works by M. Yourcenar of different genres and periods of creative work in the context of the artistic entity is carried out; means of artistic expression of time and space are found out; the leading role of spatial characteristics in the author's model of the chronotope is accentuated. It was established that the aspect of corporeality is a decisive feature of the chronotope of the works by M. Yourcenar. The existential chronotope with elements of menippea as structuring one of the later novels by M. Yourcenar is distinguished. The sense and genre generating functions of time-spatial images, in particular, the chronotope of menippea in the works by M. Yourcenar, were revealed. The attribution of later novels within the genre variety of the «novel of consciousness» is proposed. The sphere of usage is the educational process.