The article examines the way Peter Ackroyd first creates and then destroys the image of Troy in the novel with the help of the motifs of eternity and element, as well as through the images of the characters and their perception.
The article is dedicated to the issues of the play poetics as philosophical, ontological, and aesthetic paradigm of the main movements of the modern literature. The main criteria of the play are analyzed in the theoretical research and literary works of the modernist and postmodernist writers.
