Features of Anthropomorphic Narrative in Modern Prose

Abstract

The narrative structures of novels written by Ye. CheshirKo and O. Roy are considered. The author characterizes the narrative polyphony: the voice of subjectivized unreliable narrator is supplemented by the voice of an objectified narrator or the voices of other characters, which leads to transformations of the genre basis of the work. It is established that the narrative on behalf of the nonhuman character causes the appearance of the features of magical realism which consist of a special binary chronotope including the characteristics of the contemporary real world and the alternative one, a distinct type of character who is either a representative of the alternative world or a mediator between two worlds. The relevance of the research lies in the need to study narrative instances in the modern prose. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that on the basis of the modern novels, united by several features, the narrative polyphony and the ways of its creation are characterized. The author explores the stylistic features of the aforementioned novels which have not previously been the subject of thorough literary analysis. It is proved that the polyphony of narrative images expands the possibilities of the plot, style, as well as the view of a person as the subject of the image. The comparative method and the method of intertextual analysis are used in the article.

Keywords

• narrative
• unreliable narrator
• anthropomorphic character
• oleg roy
• yevgeny cheshirko
• magic realism
• modern prose