title: Revisiting the narrative structure of the short story “Nika” by V. Pelevin
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metadata.value: Baranov, Dmitry K.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-11-07T15:31:00Z
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metadata.value: 2018-11-07T15:31:00Z
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metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.value: Baranov D. K. Revisiting the narrative structure of the short story “Nika” by V. Pelevin. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature, 2018, vol. 15, issue 3, pp. 340–353.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu09.2018.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15037
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metadata.value: The article is dedicated to the narrative structure of the short story “Nika” by V. Pelevin. An
  evident feature of the story is a game relationship with a potential reader. In the process of
  reading anyone would believe that the heroine is a girl, but the last sentence reveals that she is the cat belonging to the main character. The main feature of the narrative structure is a “gap”
  between the character, the narrator and the implied author (this gap is not so obvious because
  of the first-person narration). The unnamed character unsuccessfully tries to understand
  the inner world of his cat, because he wants to meet another vision of reality. The narrator
  wants to take a look at the world in new ways too, but he realizes that his vision is limited
  by the traditions of the Russian literature. So, the narrator tries to go beyond his own vision
  by having a thought experiment. The narrator is the one who creates a text like a riddle: he
  is hinting the correct answer to the potential reader, and at the same time, he is confusing
  him/her, playing with the natural rules of speech construction. The character, the narrator
  and the author faced a communication barrier, but the author doesn’t try to overcome it.
  On the contrary, the author recognizes the equality of different points of view on the world,
  understands the inevitability of such a barrier. The didactic author is cheating the real reader,
  to teach him some of his own calm attitudes to the world, but to achieve this goal he creates
  this gap between the narrative instances.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 15; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: V. Pelevin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: postmodernism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: game with the reader
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narrative structure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narrative strategy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Revisiting the narrative structure of the short story “Nika” by V. Pelevin
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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