SPACE EVOLUTION IN GOGOL’S WORKS: MORPHOLOGICAL ORIGINS

Abstract

In the poem “Dead Souls” Gogol reproduced the archaic polycentral structure of the space from the first cycle “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”, where the way into the distance was transformed in its culmination into the way into deep. The radial- ray axis “Empire center - province” in “Revisor” and in “Petersburg’s novels” comes out as the intermediate space model between “Evenings…” and “Dead Souls”. But in the same works it was exposed because of the daemonic meanings of Petersburg, that came from “Evenings…”. In “Dead Souls”, however, the poles of the terrestrial-underground vertical were not the ancestor and the descendant, but the ideal essence of the world and its material shell.