Spatio-temporal structure of S. E. Neldikhen’s poem-novel Holiday (Ilya Radalyet) is in the centre of the research. Space and time are examined in the aspect of mythopoetics: paradise allusions define the character’s spatial location, the mythopoetic cycle ‘coming into being and disappearance’ forms the temporal model of the work. In the course of the analysis it becomes obvious how the poem-novel poetics is linked with the distinctive features of the author’s worldview