Mifopoėtičeskie strategii i travmatičeskij narrativ v romane Vremja ženščin Eleny Čižovoj

In The Time of Women (2009) by Elena Čižova, the legacy of Stalin, marked by suspicion and fear, infiltrates everyday life, driving people to live beneath the surface in a silence that becomes a stronghold for the construction of a feminine identity. The history of Russia runs through the lives of the protagonists – mothers, daughters, and grandmothers – revealing difficult relationships and complex events. The proposed analysis focuses on the artistic processes employed by the author in deconstructing and reconstructing ancient and modern myths within a dramaturgical narrative deeply marked by memory and trauma. The novel captures historically defined moments and traumatic events, such as the fixing of the hinges of the Soviet system, the implosion of the same after the disintegration of the USSR.