THE NARRATIVE FEATURE IN “THE TALE OF A POOR MAN”

Abstract

To study the artistic style of “The Tale of a Poor Man”, it is important to observe the author’s narration and envisage those features which ensure stylistic integrity of the work. The aim of our research is the analysis of those narration features which mean to separate all elements and show the stylistic function. The most striking is the narration form –the story is the confession of a narrator before his death. Accordingly, the narration is in the first person.
A keen sense of the narrator is expressed in his confession which is directed to the partner who is only a listener. It somehow causes the intonation of the story. The speech intonation in “ The Tale of a Poor Man” often changes. Doing it the writer avoids using monotonous narration and highlights the narrator’s attitude.
The narration directed to the listener defines the character’s thinking manner, the persistence of his feelings or vision. Emotional evaluation of “ narration” strengthens immediacy and openness that characterizes the confessional type narration in the background of the experience and causes the separation of the text and delay in narration. Though, the subject does not affect the dynamics of the story. The narration rhythm is fast, as delays make narration emotionally stressed. Ilia merged the elements of analysis characteristic to authors with the Immediacy usual tone that was characteristic to the confession and used it in a new way- together with the opening the character’s inner world, he highlighted the ethical and social issues.
One more characteristic of Ilia’s narration is that narrator-character not only narrates but he retells it to the reader. Such kind of retelling means intimacy and openness between the narrator and the reader.
Contrasting is a stylistic characteristic to the narration, it is dominant.