Studying modern British literature: about a boy by Nick Hornby

Seminar "Contemporary British Literature in the Educational Process of Russian Universities", the Oxford-Russia Foundation and its President Anthony Smith, Perm State University and Boris Proskurnin, personally Karen Hewitt, who is the inspirer and coordinator of the program for introducing modern British works into the educational process of Russian universities. writers have undoubtedly influenced the improvement of the study of British literature in our university. As a result, books by contemporary British writers appeared in many universities, which made it possible to study the specifics of the topics and problems of contemporary works and the peculiarities of the modern English language. The article presents the experience of working on the work of N. Hornby "All about the boy" with second-year students of the linguistic institute, analyzes the features of the subject matter of the work and the specificity of the author's language, which is the modern spoken language of the inhabitants of London.