Natalya SABUROVA,

Motrena ZAKHAROVA

This article deals with the problem of analyzing a literary text from the viewpoint of narrative studies and focuses on the category of focalization, a term suggested by the French scholar Gerard Genette. Focalization usually refers to the structure of a narrative perspective which implies its communication to the reader. In narratology, the term “perspective” denotes choice of narrative instance including interference with the events depicted, that is forming the narrative perspective/focalization. In this article, the structure of Black Swan Green will be analyzed in acoordance with the perspective suggested by Russian scholars B.A. Uspensky and V. Shmid. These instances are: perceptive, ideological, spatial, chronological and linguistic.

Keywords: literary text, narrative, narrator, focalization, perspective, instances.