The paper examines the category of chronotope in the postmodern novel “The Paradise Gatherer” by Evgeniy Chizhov. The category of temporality is interpreted in a new light and presented as simulative. A detailed analysis of the concept “historical inversion” is completed; the transformation of temporality is presented in which time in the novel scatters, losing its attributes of present and future, thickening into the past and passing into the space of irreversible myth. Also, the paper addresses the chronotopes of main characters, conducts comparative analysis of large and small, personal and world narratives, and highlights the borders of the narrative space and time of main characters Kirill and Marina Lvovna. An essential part of the research is the reinterpretation of such categories as “thingism” and “the memory of the thing”. “A thing” is presented as a singulative point which structurizes time and reproduces the past. The concept “thing” is shown as a notion of the unity of space and time thickening into one specific, singulative point.