The organization specifics of narration organization in V.V. Erofeev’s poem «Moscow – Petushki»

Abstract

This article analyzes the specifics of narrative organization in V. Erofeev’s poem «Moscow–Petushki». Thus, in particular, it is proved that the peculiarities of narration in that very fiction text are conditioned by the abnormal state of consciousness of the narrator. Since we have proved that the abnormal can be realized in artistic works in two forms: as an abnormal narrative that presupposes an abnormal depicting consciousness and as a narrative of an abnormal state of consciousness that presupposes a conventionally «normal» narrator whose narrative object is an abnormal consciousness, therefore it is obvious that in the analyzed text we are dealing with an abnormal narrative.

Based on the analysis of the poem’s text, it is proved that the narrative organization specifics in the work is embodied through three ways: communication between the narrator and a certain presumed addressee, communication realized within the diegetic world and reflected in the conversations of the central character as a fictitious narrator with other characters as fictitious narrators, communication taking place in the form of internal dialogues between the narrator and his abnormal consciousness; in such a type of communication it can also be considered as «narration».