Пространство в романе Григория Кановича "Очарованье сатаны"

ENGrigory Kanovich"s novel "Charm of Satan" (2009) is another part of his saga of the Jewish borough Mishkine (trilogy "Candles In The Wind" (1979), "Tears And Prayers of Fools" (1983)). "Charm of Satan" depicts death of Jews who lived in the Lithuanian borough Mishkine at the very beginning of the Second World War. Accomplishing historic tragedy and human consciousness of a certain epoch are introduced through the system of spatial images. Spatial signs of Kanovich's novel can be symbolically divided into two main groups. The first deals with those somehow related to the category of Memory. Therefore they go back to the category of Eternity: cemetery, home, the sky. The second group is formed by spatial symbols, characterized by temporariness, instability, and consequently aggression: Germany, Moscow, Siberia. The world of Kanovich's novel shows death of memory on the universal level. Opposition Moscow (the Soviet Union) - Germany as parts of the big historical world, subjected to the charm of Satan and sending its ruinous impulses into the quiet world of Mishkine, is not topical for Kanovich. History passed through Mishkine and Jewish everyday life destroys memory itself. The spatial model is growing narrow: from large country space - through the space of a borough - to the space of the cemetery.