The article studies the form of artistic time - retrospection and its role in the composition of the work. Any example ofartistic creativity, in particular prose, widely uses various methods that form an integral part of the artistic time, based on the ideological and aesthetic concept of the writer. The writer's depictionof past memories through the method of retrospection is studied on the example of Shoyim Botayev's prose.
Yakshilikova Sevinch Nurillayevna (Mon,) studied this question.