The dissertation is the first attempt in literary studies to comprehensively research the reactualization of history in selected novels by P. Quignard. The purpose of the research was to identify and characterize the strategies of reactualization of history in P. Quignard's novels of the 1980s-2000s, in which the action takes place in past historical epochs. In order to realize the set goal, the work outlined the peculiarity of the understanding of history in the philosophical discourse of France in the second half of the 20th century, and the specific characteristics of the representation and interpretation of history in the French novel of the 1980s-2000s, formulated in key literary works on this issue. With the help of the presented philosophical and literary theory, the characteristic features of the model of reactualization of history implemented in P. Quignard's novels were determined. Such features are, in particular, metatextuality, fragmentation, genre eclecticism, unreliability and non-linearity of the narrative as expressions of postmodern poetics. At the same time, the key genre within which P. Quignard rereads history is the biofictional novel. An attributive characteristic of P. Quignard's biofictional novels ("On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia", "Albucius", "All the World’s Mornings", "A Terrace in Rome") is the author's interest in characters forgotten by the great history or insignificant in its context. The writer focuses on heroes pushed to the periphery of history: in this way, he articulates distrust towards the traditional model of historiography, centered around prominent historical figures. Constructing a fictional character's life story, the author synthesizes it with autofiction, as a result of which the protagonists of his works function as authorial masks. It was proved that the concept of temporality of P. Quignard, highlighted by the author in his essays (mainly in the work "Sur le jadis") is of great importance for the study of the strategies of operating of history. The concept of "ancient time" is based on the idea of the existence of a mystical time interval, which is connected with the origins of the world and, therefore, precedes the appearance of man. According to the author, the feeling of this time for the artist becomes a resource for "genuine" creativity. The analysis of the intermedial mode of P. Quignard's novels testified that both music and pictorial art in his novels play the role of a mediator of the author's metalanguage in literature. Thus, through musical and graphic images, P. Quignard relays the mentioned concept of "ancient times", presenting a personal vision of temporality as the key theme of the artistic works of the protagonists of the novels "All the World’s Mornings" and "A Terrace in Rome". The study of the novel "The American Occupation" testified the breadth of the spectrum of history to which P. Quignard addresses. The novel presents both a relatively close time perspective and a background story. The author depicts the period of the presence of American NATO bases on the territory of post-war France, consistently criticizing the culture and worldview of representatives of the "new world" from the standpoint of elitist anti-Americanism inherent in the intellectual discourse of France. The work traces the process of modification of the national and cultural identity of the main character due to the influence of American culture. The history of post-war France in the novel reveals itself as linked to the prehistory, which, in the author's view, constitutes the fundamental layer of each era. The recurrence of mythological ancient times in Quignard's artistic paradigm is – according to the theory of eternal return proposed by G. Deleuze – a transhistorical process, a refrain of eternity in the present. It was also proved that the reactualization of history in P. Quignard's novels takes place mainly through the author's endowment of history with its own meaning. Quignard's vision of each individual era appears to be subjectivized, intimated and, accordingly, inconsistent with traditional historiography.
