References to time and their Role in Constructing an Image of the Human Being in A. Solzhenitsyn’s An Incident at Kochetovka Station

Abstract

This paper is an analysis of A. Solzhenitsyn’s work entitled An Incident at Kochetovka Station. The analysis relies on a combined, syncretic research methodology, allowing the author to highlight the most important features that define the image of the world as depicted by the writer. When read carefully, Solzhenitsyn’s work enables the reader to assess properly the value of temporal relations in the construction of the specific image of the human being that the writer interwove in his story. The story under analysis, which was officially published in the USSR, contains elements that unveil the inhuman nature of the Communist ideology – when we look at it from the contemporary perspective.