The chronotope "a provincial town" in J. Fowles's "The Magus"
The notion of chronotope is considered in the article through its relations with the personage representation in the novel. As an element of a virtual model of fictional reality the chronotope is a three-component system in which time and space perception is determined by the emotional state of the subject. The emotive background identifies the type of chronotope and the change in the emotive colouring serves as a sign of its modification into a new type. Key emotions peculiar to the chronotope “a provincial town” are boredom and dissatisfaction. The narrator's time and space perception is represented through the choice of words, tense forms, tropes and figures of speech.