Unreliable narration and unrelia ble focalization in works of non-classical Russian litera ture

Abstract

This article is devoted to unreliable narration and unreliable focalization in Russian literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The analyzed texts belong to the non-classical paradigm of art. Texts of the modernist era attract the reader with co-creation, and the unreliable narrator allows the author to involve reader. The concepts of unreliable narration and unreliable focaliza tion are differentiated. An unreliable focalizer may be naive, limited in information, or have changes in consciousness and psyche. A narrator who deliberately deceives and a narrator who brings together several points of view on one event in the text are considered unreliable. Unrelia ble narration and unreliable focalization are features of non-classical literature