Stylistic functions of ellipses in apocopic constructions (based on S. Dovlatov's works)

In this article ellipses are viewed in different positions in sentence and text, the main stylistic functions of this punctuation mark are revealed in Dovlatov's works. Ellipsis is presented as an expressive punctuation mark. The reason for its use as a stylistic device that allows the author of an art work to omit the speech evaluation of the situation and the character is proved.