Abstract
The article showcases the distinctive characteristics and analytical powers of the narratological approach to examination of a literary text as a system of episodes comprising a unique subject of the artistic whole. The author specifies the typological concept of the narrative picture of the world as the basis for accurate understanding of epic literature. An analytical description of the system of episodes in the short story The Bishop [Arkhierey] reveals the consistency of Chekhov's masterpiece with the precedential (in this case, evangelical) picture of the world. The story's narrative content is examined as an artistic actualisation of a sacred historical event in an incident of a private quotidian existence. The proposed interpretation of the story polemicises with that offered by the German narratology scholar W. Schmid, who denies the eventfulness of the protagonist's metamorphosis and views his epiphany with skepticism.
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