Ayrapetyan Liliya Sarkisovna – Candidate in Philology, Senior Pedagogue of Supplementary Education at the Department of Foreign Languages of Institute of Envi-ronmental Engineering of RUDN University; ORCID: 0009-0005-4992-2182
In this article the author carries out the comparative research of the image of house in the short fiction of the 1950s of the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes and the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. The topos of house as a significant part of Latine American artistic world reflects the writers’ position on the actual society, the national and regional self-consciousness. The space of the mansion-labyrinth, that has also temporal features and embodies the cyclic and integrating models of time, can be defined as a specific chronotope. Inside the house the character finds a fantastic, irrational force that provides him a psychological truth about himself. Such details as a window, a door, a hall, stairs have symbolic meaning.
the Mexican literature; the Argentine literature; chronotope; cyclic time; integrating time; the fantastic