Mokhnacheva O. V. The character identity in terms of the genre experiment in the contemporary novel (The Sense of an Ending by J. Barnes)

Abstract

The article considers one of the aspects of the genre strategy of the novel at the present stage of its development – the status of the character as a center-forming factor in the interplay with the artistic form and text structures. Basing on a particular example, the tragedy of the “I” identity has been traced, as well as the problem of the corresponding the character'sidentity to temporal continuum.