THE NOVEL BY H. BÖLL “EYES OF THE CLOWN” AND ITS LINGUISTIC SPACE

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to establish the main local characteristics of the text of a large form - the novel. Selection of the main and minor features of the local architectonics of the novel within the contextual, descriptive and segmented textual research methods allows to build their hierarchical system in the macro text, which seems quite relevant in connection with the text construction issues. Using the results of the study, the author identifies several invariant features of the artistic space. These include a clear correlation between the two local subsystems of the text (the author’s speech and the characters' speech); fixing the main language tool that provides the local organization of the text as homogeneous or heterogeneous. The variability of the space of the events described in the novel helps the author to characterize the text in terms of monolocality or polylocality, and to describe fully the local organization of the novel as a type of text. The article is of practical interest for researchers involved in the theory of the text, problems of its organization and semantic integrity, both in linguistics and in literary criticism.