reflection

The aim of the article is to analyze a number of indicative and interrelated examples of the reflection and duality motifs used in the novel Dead Bruges (Bruges-la-Morte) by the Belgian symbolist J. Rodenbach. The author offers a few different interpretations of these examples connecting them with the artistic and ideological horizon of art nouveau style, with its various genre manifestations, as well as in terms of the realization of its characteristic themes – femininity, death and the afterlife, water, and the urban theme.

The author analyzes A. P. Chekhov’s letters from the point of view of literary editing theory as the examples of different text types in the way of presentation. Narration, description, reflection, definition and explanation are considered, and their features are identified.

The article presents the results of studying F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel’s Notes from Underground from the point of view of researching the issue of another’s view in the writer’s creative oeuvre.The evidence obtained from the text analysis allows to single out some characteristic features of the visual behavior of the ‘underground man’, as well as to expand the interpretation of the novel.

The paper analyses characteristic features of Julian Barnes’s historiographic metafiction Arthur & George. The author’s use of the ‘binary coding’ method is studied. The postmodern play that is expressed in deliberate blurring of the distinction between fiction and reality is noted. The article studies the narrative structure of the novel which reflects the postmodern postulate of the plurality of viewpoints.