ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Literary studies |
Sargsyan М. A. | Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia |
Keywords: modern novel metafiction Natalia Sokolovskaya autobiographical novel publishing strategy |
Summary: The article deals with the novel Literary Slave: Weekdays and Feast Days by a St. Petersburg writer Natalia Sokolovskaya (written
under the pen name Natalia Sorbatskaya). This novel is used for examining the modern metafiction phenomenon and its place in
the modern literary process. Literary Slave is metafiction of a special type – it includes the author’s reflection on the modern publishing
world, as well as the description of the literary cuisine and creativity mechanisms. The novel’s title, its complex composition,
and a plot built on the “literary Matryoshka principle” (a story within a story), enable us to define this work as a meta-novel, which intertwines love, autobiography and production novels and makes a diagnosis for the modern literary process. |
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