PRECEDENT PHENOMENA AND THEIR ROLE IN UWE TIMM’S NOVEL “IN MY BROTHER’S SHADOW”

Abstract

The article examines a novel by the modern German writer U. Timm “In My Brother’s Shadow” from the point of view of addressing precedent phenomena. The main problem is the multiple references in the text of the work to historical material, which create another level of perception of the novel for the Russian reader. Referring to documents, mentioning famous events, journalistic works, and quoting statements allow us to speak specifically about precedent phenomena that play a key role in revealing the theme and idea of the novel, they define the originality of his poetics. Also in the article, the precedent material of the work is correlated with the classification of V.V. Krasnykh, which makes it possible to consider them as socio-precedent, national-precedent, universal-precedent phenomena and identify precedent phenomena that are of priority for the author’s position.