Dialogue with the Reader in the Novel One Billion Years to the End of the World by the Strugatsky Brothers

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s novel «One Billion Years to the End of the World» has certain features in terms of subject organization. The article is devoted to the analysis of the authors’ strategy for building a dialogue with the reader in the novel. Arguments are made to prove that the primary subject of speech is a personified narrator disguising as impersonal; the form of diary entries is designed to establish a trusting relationship with the reader, while the main strategy used by the authors of the novel is understanding.