The article presents an analysis of the specific features of interpreting the tradition of the family novel in «The Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog» by O.Slavnikova. The comparative-historical and holistic methods were used in the analysis of this literary work. It was found that O.Slavnikova, while creating a family novel in terms of genre, reinvents the chronotopical relationships of the family novel: «the idyllic chronotope» is replaced by the space of the Home that becomes a symbol of destruction and total solitude. The very concept of the family changes in «The Dragonfly Enlarged to the Size of a Dog»: the novel depicts the type of a «female family» whose members became victims of the darkest historical (the era of repressions) and personal (the trauma of losing one's father) circumstances.
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