The Medium Function of the Author in the Novel-Voices of S. Aleksievich “War does not have a Woman’s Face”

Abstract

In works with a documentary beginning, the category of the author has its own specifics. First of all, it is necessary to take into account the “medium function of the author”, since the author acts either as an eyewitness, participant in events, or as a chronicler, chronicler of the event - “the author, listening, recording and passing through himself the confession stories of many different people, gives his heroes a push, an impulse of memory, its direction - into the intimate world of the soul, where the drama of this or that event, the peculiarities of its perception are revealed" [5,77]. The second point that should be paid attention to is the comprehension of the past from the standpoint of today, where the author needs to accompany the document with his comments. And thirdly, the image of the author also includes the intratextual author, who can take on not only various masks, but also build his own special form of narration in the text.