Locating the Totalitarian Insanity: The Chronotope of the Asylum in Mykola Khvyliovyi’s A Tale about the Sanatorium Zone and Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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The article compares the formal and intentional aspects of the novels A Tale About the Sanatorium Zone by the Ukrainian writer of 1920s Mykola Khvyliovyi and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey through the prism of Bakhtin’s chronotope. The reason of many coincidences in these two novels about madness lies in the similar historical context of two eras – the post-revolutionary USSR and post-WWII America. The author of the article analyses the asylum (the cuckoo’s nest) and the sanatorium
(the zone) as the incarnations of ruining the personality. The time in such conditions is shown in a distorted form, which is why it becomes even more neurotic. The chronotopic structure of both texts clearly reflects verges of human existence in a totalitariansociety and reveals the ways of psychoisolation and psychomanipulation undertaken
by the power system.
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