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Abstract.
This article examines O. Slavnikova’s novel “Long Jump” from a psychological perspective. The research aims to identify the specifics of the novel’s psychologism. The scientific originality of the study lies primarily in its holistic examination of “Long Jump”, considering its problem-thematic field as a whole, and in the analytical aspect itself: the authors analyze how the writer represents novelistic psychologism, drawing on the Silver Age tradition, and focusing on reality and otherness, life and death as crucial metaphysical issues. The results establish, firstly, that the means of creating psychologism in the work are motifs of the unconscious: the suggestiveness of recurring dreams, referencing the Silver Age psychologism tradition, contributes to the character’s departure from the material world. Secondly, chronotope acquires significant functional importance: the apartment chronotope defines the novel’s psychological plot, organizes the objective world, and marks themes of loneliness, internal and external emptiness; the topoi of school, film set, and street define the deepening of novelistic psychologism and the hero’s attainment of inner freedom. Thirdly, the unreal serves as a means of revealing the hero’s psychological state and a unique world through which the secret side of existence is most clearly manifested.
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