The position of the conceptualized author (on the example of the series of fantastic stories “Labyrinths of Echo”)

The article focuses on the description of the conceptualized author position. The study’s object is fantasy novels “Labyrinths of Echo” by Max Frei. Max Frei is the pseudonym of Russian-speaking authors S. Martynchik and I. Stepin. The conceptualized author is consciousness, mediated by a work of art, embodied by correlating the text passages with the subjects of speech to whom the text is attributed (formally-subjective organization), and the subjects of consciousness whose consciousness is expressed in the text (content-subjective organization). The position of the conceptualized author is determined by the main task of the author's work – the creation of a literary hoax. The character-writer presence builds the work’s structure as a «text within a text», which suggests that the series «Labyrinths of Echo» is a variant of the meta-prose. The novelty of the study is the fact that the works of Max Frei, being a vivid example of Russian fantasy, are considered in the context of postmodern approaches due to the general socio-cultural context: both Russian fantasy and Russian postmodernism were developed in the 90s of the XX century. Thus, as a hypothesis of the research, it is suggested that the position of the conceptualized author is determined within the framework of the postmodern game. This consciousness models a new reality based on a postmodern game. As a result, the idea is put forward that consciousness mediated by text allows to create a new model of reality based on a postmodern game.