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The term chronotope ‘literally means ‘time-space’. This term was initially introduced in mathematics as a part of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity where time is considered as the fourth dimension of space. In the literary realm, chronotope denotes the inseparability of time and space. Kant in his Transcendental Aesthetics considers “space and time as indispensable forms of any cognition, beginning with elementary perceptions and representations [and these forms provide a major role] in the process of concrete artistic cognition (artistic visualization) under conditions obtaining in the genre of the novel” (Bakhtin 85). In other words, abstract thoughts of the reader are transformed into concrete artistic visualisation through the chronotope.