NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF O. A. SLAVNIKOVA’S NOVEL "THE LONG JUMP"
The article analyzes the narrative structure of O. A. Slavnikova’s novel “The Long Jump”. Applying the concept of a narrative intrigue, we have realized the functional and rhetorical approach (E. Segal) in studying the text of the novel. The narrative intrigue is suspense, secured in a sequence of events and achieved due to the configuration of episodes, maintaining and directing readers’ interest. The recreative intrigue (V. I. Tyupa), characteristic of archaic texts and used in modern myphologically oriented works, dominates in “The Long Jump”. This intrigue organizes the sequence of events, narrating about an encounter of an extraordinary person (the talented athlete Oleg Vedernikov) and the fate, destiny. The reader's interest is maintained here not by the question about the result of this encounter, but by the way the story is narrated. Therefore, the plot of the protagonist’s reflection and the “adventure” of the word, representing it, are very important for the novel. Thus, this work can be defined as an ideological novel, whose intrigue is supported by the reader's interest in the outcome of an intellectual duel: the situation of collision with fate becomes the object of judgment for totally different characters. The article analyzes the language level of the text, in particular, the use of the terms from exact, natural, and social sciences as a metalanguage of the novel, expressing the idea of dehumanization, “unpersonification”, which becomes the reverse side of superhumanity.