The time as a factor in transforming the model of personality (belkin tales – from “poetics” to the “prose” of life), part 2

Abstract

The article examines how A. Pushkin uses the category of the time in his Tales of Belkin epic cycle; the second part, a short story The Blizzard, lets us specify a variety of solutions which are representative of the cycle as a whole. Pushkin’s poetics of time consists in that the time can improve and destroy the personality. Time in its course creates conditions for the formation of the full and harmonious personality, combining poetry and the prose of life.