The paper examines the role of space and time relations of Rolando Hinojosa’s novel Klail City in understanding the writer's fictional world. Based on the concepts of D.S. Likhachev, B.A. Uspensky, M.M. Bakhtin and Yu.M. Lotman, the author describes the system of time and space in the novel, identifies and classifies its different levels. The paper compares and contrasts the ways chronotope is represented in Hinojosa’s novels to those in the novels by John Steinbeck, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez and Thomas Wolf. It was revealed that the course of time accelerates and the space of the novel expands with the change of the narrators' point of view. A chronotope model of the novel is proposed, which is developed on the basis of the theory of interaction between space-time relations and the system of characters.
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