Temporal and spatial dimensions of the discourse of loneliness in Christopher Isherwood’s “A Single Man”

The article analyses the peculiarities of discourse loneliness in its connection with categories time and space Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man (1964). relevance research is conditioned by general tendency to revise canon modernist literature a special focus on ‘minor’ voices. Neither novel chosen as object nor literary heritage sufficiently represented Ukrainian studies Anglo-American literature. purpose study identify characterize main forms through which actualized dimensions space. complex methodological approach applied order reach objective involves hermeneutic analysis, close reading, aspects genre (D. Higdon’s concept circadian novel) narratology (G. Genette’s paratext theory). As result study, it discovered that multidimensional phenomenon motivated multiple factors various origins. analysis paratextual elements allows for interpretation key category text. existential plane functions conceptual dominant, around entire organized. realization are reviewed distinction made between their external internal variations. External characterized novel’s historical sociocultural background, connected consumerization simulacrization American society. At level, features construction defined: chronological frame, limited not only physical boundaries day but also separation past future; narrative present; sensation moment; effect recursive repetition. divided into local, multitude small loci (the house, hospital, gym, etc.), global, incarnated opposition natural urban. spatial dimension has areas memory, trauma, liberation, eschatology, combinations actualize spaces.