Permeable borders: word, thought, space and time in Henry Green's "Party going" (1939)

“Party Going” by Henry Green, virtually unexplored in Russia, is seen as the continuation, in the context of the 1930-s social condition, of the experiment in the narrative form commenced by the first generation of Modernists. Green questions the borders between direct and indirect speech, speech and thought which results in complex interpersonal relations within the novel. Typically modernist montage of space and time planes becomes another “sense-generating” technique. All this establishes a polyvalent universe open to the reader’s epistemological doubt and completion.