The article examines the transformation of the idyllic chronotope (family idyll) in A.S. Pushkin's verse novel «Eugene Onegin». The analysis also includes the poem «Count Nulin» and the unfinished «<The Novel in Letters>». It is argued that Pushkin, before creating a new type of novel in Russian literature, was to determine his relation to the previous tradition of the genre, which he himself designated as the «old-way novel». The analysis of the situations and scenes that are traditional for a «sentimental old-way novel» (and, in the first place, the situation of tea-drinking - the quintessential family idyll) allows one to see how Pushkin, by transforming the canon, creates his «new-way novel», which is a reflection of the objective complexity of life that does not fit within the conventions of the idyllic chronotope.
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