The Poetics of Chronotope in the Novel "Yaldo Kechasi": The Dialectics of Historical Time and Artistic Space

This article examines Khayriddin Sulton’s novel Yaldo kechasi (2025) based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope. It explores the chronotopic nature of the image of “night” in the title; the organization of historical time, spanning from the late nineteenth century to 1924, through generational time; the ideological significance of the spaces of Margilan, the school, exile, and the river; and the relationship between “chronicle time,” introduced through documentary texts, and the time of artistic narration.