"The Queen of Spades" by A.S. Pushkin as a polygenre text: chronotope, narration and worldview of the author

The subject of the research in the article is the chronotopic coordinates of the inner world of the story "The Queen of Spades" (1833) by A.S. Pushkin: the St. Petersburg "long winter night", the "locked door" and the numerical symbolism of time. All of them have previously been mentioned by domestic and foreign researchers of the text, but have not been analyzed in detail. In the present article, the specified chronotopic elements are considered systematically for the first time and studied in the context of Pushkin's work of the 1830s. In addition, the article focuses on the narrative organization of the text: the analysis revealed the specifics of the author's use of the lexemes "to seem" and "to appear" in the narrative fabric of the work. With the help of these lexemes, the author recreated the boundary spatio-temporal coordinates of the artistic world of "The Queen of Spades". The purpose of the study is to determine the chronotopic elements related to different genre models: a novella/non-fantastic story or a fairy tale/fantastic story; to understand the principles of interaction of genre elements and to comprehend the author's sense of life, which determined such a complex nature of the text. In this regard, a set of methods was used as an analytical tool: elements of genre and narrative analysis are in demand. As a result of the conducted research, it is concluded that the polygenre nature of "The Queen of Spades" is formed by the synthesis of genre elements and their controversy: in the inner world of a work of art, the fairy-tale chronotope "explodes" the everyday flow of life, and the everyday narrative narration slows down the energy of the fantastic and the fairy-tale. The polygenre nature of the text initiates an understanding of the chronotopic details of the work from several semantic angles simultaneously. At the same time, the narrator's point of view is a vital counterpoint, often expressed by the lexemes "it seemed" and "it appeared"; this narrative counterpoint is devoid of dogmatic omniscience, since the author is open to the entire diversity of Life. The results of the conducted research can be used for the lecture courses devoted to the study of the works of A.S. Pushkin and Russian prose of the 19th century.