Zhuravska O. The dichotomy of a «real» and «unreal» chronotopes as a genre category of the Ukrainian whimsical novel of the 2nd half of the 20th century.

The paper deals with chronotopic analysis of whimsical novels in the aspect of real-unreal dichotomy, the results allow us to interpret the bizarre as a genre dominant not only considering a chronotope-multiverse as the strategy of representation unreal as possible and valid but also taking into account chronotopes of the main characters. The concept «multiverse» is used in this paper for designation of chronotope as the dynamic plurality formed by dialogical interaction of various chronotopes which sense forming potential is implemented in the transcendental hronotopical worlds of the author and readers. The organization of the novel multiverse is carried out, including, by the dichotomy «reality» – «unreality» as one of the ways of receptive qualification of peripheral chronotopes according to oppositional semantic identifiers (natural – supernatural, possible – impossible, etc.) in complex system of literary communication: author – narrator – represented world. The work consists of introduction; three sections, each of them include subsections; conclusion and list of the used sources.