FUNCTIONS OF THE “UNRELIABLE” NARRATOR IN RUSSIAN NOVEL OF THE 1920–1930S.
This article deals with the features of the narrative of Post-Symbolism novels. The investigation of the figure of the unreliable narrator is based on the texts by Vsevolod Ivanov, Constantine Vaginov, Yuri Olesha, and Vladimir Nabokov. The role that this kind of a narrative instance plays in realization of the narrative strategy of provocation is observed.
Keywords: narrative, narrator, storyteller, metaauthor, V. Nabokov, Yu. Olesha, K. Vaginov, L. Dobychin, I. Ehrenburg, V. Ivanov
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