THE METAMODERN CONTEXT OF NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN M. ZUZAK'S NOVEL "THE BOOK THIEF"

Abstract

The article examines the narrative strategies of Markus Zuzak's novel "The Book Thief" from the perspective of metamodern aesthetics and the concept of metaxis. The article outlines the modern trends in the development of literary studies, which actualizes the problems of narratology at all functioning levels in the image of the human world, which draws special attention to the question of implementation forms and living of the narrative within the limits of the artistic work as a functional system that has signs of closure and openness. By narrative strategy, we mean a way of representing the artistic world of the text, characters, and the author, which is unique for a certain work of art, which is carried out through the mediation of the narrator. The narrative strategy in the paradigmatic (narrative as a variant of the narrative strategy of the text in the body of culture) and syntagmatic (narrative as a way of interaction between the narrative and the plot) dimensions of the work is also considered. The following aspects (or separate strategies) are distinguished in the novel's narrative strategy: the communicative one, which captures the peculiarities of communication as an interaction of the structural elements of the narrative and narrative instances; the event, which records the event as external or internal to the plot, the movement of the characters and their interaction, the visual and phenomenological aspect of the event, signs of heterogeneity, chronotypicality, intelligibility, factuality are also outlined; temporal, which examines the narrative from the point of view of its temporal regime; fictional, which considers the relationship between the reality of the text system and the environment (reality, culture) in which it is located; aesthetic, which captures the peculiarities of the aesthetic reception of the work in combination with its substantive and formal components; metanarrative, which considers the narrative as the subject of the next narrative, and performative, which interprets the forms of correlation and identification of speech and action in the narrative.