Квадратурин Сигизмунда Кржижановского

Abstract

The author of the article shows how problem of housing in the chronotope poetics of Krzhizhanovsky narratives is realized. The nuclear lexemes are "area" and "room", there are also the oppositions of one's own and another, way of life and being, etc. This problem was vital for Moscow of twenties and was well known to writer from his own experience. The analysis of the short story "Quadraturin", which depicts insanity of a person that has lost a foothold in the space, represents the modern approach of philosophical generalization and expressionist method, giving voice to the cry of despair.