Just so stories: on the novels of Graham Swift

The article provides an overview of the novelistic work of Graham Swift (b. 1949). In it, with the involvement of the material of all his novels, the cross-cutting themes of the writer's works are described: love, relations between children and parents, death, history. Then the key methods and techniques of his work with the form are considered - such, for example, as pseudo-documentary and the creation of phantasmagorias, the use of several narrators (up to the polyphony of "The Last Orders"), shifts of time layers, allusibility.