Narrative as a Playground. Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov Cover Image

Narracja jako przestrzeń gry. Między psem a wilkiem Saszy Sokołowa
Narrative as a Playground. Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov

Author(s): Weronika Biegluk-Leś
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: postmodernism; narrative; game; intertextuality;

Summary/Abstract: Narrative specifity of Sasha Sokolov’s novel Between Dog and Wolf is determined by a tendency to expose liminality, by a fascination of heterogeneity and fluidity of the text’s meanings. The novel’s characters are thus variable, complex and ambiguous. The narrative style shimmers as a sophisticated mix of different types and modes of language, different tones, emotions and attitudes. A scrappy plot can be hardly re-established by reader, which finds herself deeply involved in the play of multi-faceted interferences and altered repetitions.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 23-39
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish