Subjective narrative in Graham Swift's writing: character and personality in the novel “Waterland”

The article focuses on the characteristics of Graham Swift’s subjective narrative in “Waterland”. It examines the structure of the novel’s subjective narrative, personality representation and means of the characters formation. G.Swift uses ideologically explanatory patterns in building the character and the concept of personality. His characters do not only have distinctive psychological features but represent nonlinear historical concepts. Paradoxically reinvented biblical motifs are applied to characterize the characters. In Swift’s novels they are the carriers of “cultural codes” and concepts presenting their existential nature.