Music and Time Annotation << Back The Sonataness as the Development of a Sense of Catastrophism in the Mind of Andrei Kovrin in Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s «The Black Monk» G.R. Konson The novelty of this article is expressed in two ways – in the research vision of psychology of catastrophism bringing the ordinary man «to its knees» in front of destiny’s face, and in the method of research which combines the several types of analysis: philological, psychological, music, as well as comparative. Such approach enables to make author’s own contribution to the studying of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s works. This paper contains two complementary hypothesis: 1. the causes of madness of the hero and the collapse of his personality are moral; 2. the one of the most dynamic forms of music – sonata form – discloses the catastrophization of Andrei Kovrin’s mind. The relevance of the work is to identify the high and low human aspirations that are reborn in every person and need of multiple types of studies. Keywords: art image, Andrei Kovrin, human, person, the Black Monk, Pesotski’s family, garden, life, love, illness, life, catastrophism, sonataness. Contacts: E-mail: gkonson@yandex.ru Pp. 40-47.