Modern English short story as the embodiment of narrative space

The article focuses on the specifics of the content and organization of the narrative space created by J. Archer. The narrative space is treated as a fundamental category of the theory of text and discourse, and entails the interpretation of the system of linguistic means employed for creating the ideological-semantic and formal-structural originality of the short story “Trial and Error”. The author identifies the features of the narrative space that establish its correlation links with the phenomena of “physical” reality, and analyzes the spectrum of multi-level linguistic means of modern English that contribute to the creation of space as an element of “artistic reality”, not devoid of fiction and significantly marked from the position of the author’s - J. Archer’s - author’s modality.