GENRE PECULIARITIES OF THE FRENCH POSTMODERNIST NOVEL ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE WORK OF B. WERBER’S “HIS MAJESTY THE CAT”

Abstract

The work studies the genre and stylistic features of the French postmodernist novel on the example of the work of a modern French writer Bernard Werber. Special attention is paid to the study and analysis of postmodernist terms, elements and principles in literature on the example of B. Werber’s novel “His Majesty the Cat”. The study of postmodernism as a key direction in modern literature and art is considered as an actual cultural and philosophical phenomenon covering various spheres of human activity. The study includes the analysis of theoretical peculiarities of postmodernism, the concepts of intertextuality, intermediality, neomyth, the concept of “vitroroman”, and the problems of pastiche poetics. The article is supplemented by a frame analysis of the central image of the cat in the novel. The proposed frame model reflects modern principles of interdisciplinary literary research, including some methods of cognitive linguistics.