Changing the type of narrator (by the material of T. Tolstoy's story “Sonia”)

The article discusses the features of changing the type of the narrator on the material of T. Tolstoy's story "Sonya". The aim of the work is to analyze the speech features of the types of the narrator and the specifics of changing the type of the narrator in the text of the story. The methods of observation, contextual analysis and generalization are used as the main ones in the work. Based on the analysis, the author of the work comes to the conclusion that the change of types of the narrator, the transition of the narrator from the level of characters to the overtext level allows the reader to see a more objective picture of what is happening. It should be noted that the reversal of the roles of the narrator can be regarded as an artistic device.