Narrative strategies in stories by Lydmila Petrushevskaya

The article reviews narrative strategies in the prose by the modern writer Lyudmila Petrushevskaya on the material of the stories "Immortal Love", "Requiems", "Songs of the Eastern Slavs". According to well-known narratology theorists, narrative strategies are considered as the positioning of a narrative subject, i.e. the carrier of the narration function, the one who carries out the intended communication of the implicit author with the addressee - reader. At the same time, analysis of narrative strategies includes taking into account genre discourse (in the stories "Country" and "Who Will Answer"), creating a speech mask specified in the appearance of the narrator ("Orphan"), and also features of dual-world created in the narrative structure ("The Case in Sokolniki"). The article states that the mandatory act of communication in the stories is the receptive competence of a genre, i.e. its inherent targeting to the perceiving consciousness. Petrushevskaya's narrative strategy allows the reader to take a position of an accomplice in a communicative event, determined by his competence in this genre discourse.