FEATURES OF NARRATIVE AND SYNTAX IN THE YU.P KAZAKOV’S STORY “THE CANDLE”

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of Yu.P. Kazakov’s story “The candle”, the main goal of which is to outline features of the narrative and syntax of this story as an example of lyric prose. In the course of the work on the analysis, the following features of the narrative structure of “The candle” are identified: 1) the narrator in the text can be defined as diegetic, since it has an explicit expression, since the narration is from the 1st person; 2) the story is an oral story of the speaker; 3) the dictum plan of the story is not very diverse, while the modus one has a more interesting expression, represented by the emotional assessments of the narrator. These narrative features affect the syntax of the story: it acquires colloquial features. The following colloquial features are highlighted in the text: 1) inversion of some constructions; 2) an abundance of rhetorical figures; 3) the author’s use of complex sentences with clauses, assignments, etc.