| The essence of the novel "An Evening with Claire" are memories creatively reconstructed by the protagonist. Time is the predominant category that defines the architecture of the novel, the means of artistic expression, and the world of ideas. |
| Time in the novel could be schematized. It's a coordinate system. The horizontal vector presented as the subjective time of love commotion and voluntary war experience is intertwined with the objective time of society and the image of Claire's body. The vertical vector is the eternity the protagonist seeks to learn. The image of Claire should be interpreted as the starting point for the protagonist ascent up to a new life. |
| The narrative time of the novel is in the focus of development, in the point of the intersection of horizontal and vertical vectors of time-eternity. |
| In the novel, the trials the main character goes through signify the Space (order) recovery after the Chaos of war. Microcosm becomes macrocosm via the conversion of the "horrors of history" into the "catastrophe of my life" with the subsequent creative transformation of negative into positive (bright future). |
| The protagonist goes out of the circle of "eternal return", associated with the fear of death, to a new level of evolutionary development. He perceives all the challenges of life vitalistically, as an opportunity for self-development. |
| Gazdanov was able to assimilate a broad cultural modern outlook within the archaic worldview as a salvation from the "horrors of history". |
| Neomythology of the novel "An Evening with Claire" organically interlinks ultimate meanings with their nowadays actualization. |
