Starting from the Bakhtin's theory of the novel this work researches the chronotope of the childhood in the two contemporary novels – Farewell Cowboy by Olja Savičević Ivančević and I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti. Using the concept of the chronotope Bakhtin pointed on the temporal and spatial relationships within the literary text, which, by their nature, mutually form indistinguishable whole of "time-space". Since in these novels connection of the time and the space are interwoven around the central motif of the childhood, it could be considered as the dominant chronotopic element in the both novels. Therefore, the central part of this work deals with the comparative analysis on a few levels: Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope, chronotopic return to the childhood, chronotopicality characters of the children and the relationship between the characters of children and other characters in both novels. In the novel Farewell Cowboy time-space of the childhood begins to take shape with the return of the main character Dada in her family house. With the intention of solving the mystery of her brother's suicide, she takes the narrative trips to the past, mixing constantly the family and the private level with the collective and the social level. Both levels of the past are obscured by the sense of loss of values in the time of transition. The traumatic experience is pulled through the infantile vision, which on the one hand narrows the perspective and slows the resolution of the plot, and the other enriches the style and defamiliarizates linguistic expression. In Ammaniti's novel I'm Not Scared nine year old protagonist Michele appears in the role of the narrator. The chronotope of the childhood in this novel is based on stopped time of the backwoods, where a turning point that accelerates the time of growing up comes when Michele accidentally discovers the kidnapped boy, his coeval. While the chronotopical return in the place of childhood in the novel by Olja Savičević is revealed by the untangle the secrets of the past, the return in the Ammaniti's novel is evoked only by memories of the adult narrator so that it takes place exclusively on the reflexive level. Common chronotopical feature in both novels is connected with the space of provinces which symbolically slows the time and allows the concentration on the condensed event in the stopped segment of the childhood. It points out, according to Bakhtin's understanding of human character in literature, the chronotopicality of the rejected characters in the world of the remoted area.