The difference of the external and internal point of view in the text with an unreliable narrator (based on the material of I. Andreev’s short story Thought)

L. Andreev’s short story Thought has a complex narrative organization. The author of the article proves that there are two narrators in the narrative-primary and secondary ones. The primary narrator introduces the reader to the circumstances of the crime and shows the final scene of the trial. The reliable primary narrator prefers to keep the narrative intrigue and stops the narrative reporting the equal split of jurors’ opinions. The secondary narrator Dr. Kerzhentsev, who has committed the crime, writes notes for forensic examination in which he appears as an unreliable narrator with altered consciousness. The study reveals the main principle of the text construction in Andreev’s story, i.e. a binary opposition: the primary and secondary narrators, division of Kerzhentsev’s point of view into external and internal ones, contrasting his narrative with the notes on “the scraps of paper” from the moments of the narrative which reveal the narrator’s “true face”.