Macro-narrative algorithms: 24-element cycle of describing reality (using the novel by L. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina")

The article develops an ontological model in relation to which the narrative is presented as an 8-element cycle, applied to both microstructures (episode) and macrostructures of the narrative (plot). The study is conducted in the context of ancient macroalgorithmic models, which are still popular in the countries of Southeast Asia. In ongoing storytelling, there is periodic application of the 8-element model. Three such cycles are accepted as a narrative cycle, the content of which is a large-scale description of a certain reality. The 24th stage of the narrative is followed by the beginning of the description of a new reality at the 25th/26th stages. The author determines the properties of four levels of the 8-element episode. The obtained characteristics are tested at the micro level of the narrative and at the macro level, represented by eight parts of the novel "Anna Karenina" by L. Tolstoy. It was found that there is a change in socio-political reality upon completion of the 24th stage of narrative, after this stage public opinion acquires greater significance.