NEO-ROMANTIC ARCHITECTONICS OF SPACE IN THE NOVEL "TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA" BY JULES VERNE

The article deals with the artistic peculiarities of description of ocean as a world model in the neo- romantic novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" by Jules Verne. In order to reveal the characteristic features of the neo-romantic chronotope, the author of the article carries out a comparative analysis of the per- ception of ocean as a space in Jules Verne's novel and the romantic novel "Toilers of the Sea" by Victor Hugo. If the architectonics of the novel space of the "Toilers of the Sea" is built on the antitheses expressing dialectically interdependent contrasts and unity of the romantic world view, the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is a neo-romantic work, with the characteristics for this current mix of romantic (the image of Nemo) and realistic (the description of the underwater world)