The techniques of depicting the tragic nature of war in the story of B. Vasilyev "Friday"
The article discusses these stylistic devices, as a clash of different genres vocabulary, oxymoron, extended metaphor, a play on the meanings of polysemic words, syntactic parallelism, question-and-response form nonnative-direct speech, the parcelling. Thanks to them, B. Vasilyev managed to show in the story not only a tragedy that is war, but power to confront the tragic nature of the war. This force is the human memory and fidelity.