Discontinuum as a characteristics of autobiographical prose

The phenomenon of discontinuum is described as including genre, type of narration, composite-syntax organization. The autobiographical genre specifies re-interpretative character of prose; the first personal narrative can explicate means of discontinuum organization; peculiarity of genre and narrative is revealed in text segmentation and fragmentation. The object of investigation is «The Story about Sonechka» by M.I. Tsvetaeva