CONCEPT OF NARRATIVE ANALYSIS AND BASIC APPROACHES

The article is devoted to a general overview of the concept of narrator, an analysis of its main characteristics and functions as an important subject of the science of storytelling. Considerable attention is paid to the definitions of the category of narrator by domestic and foreign linguists and to the typology of the narrator. The problems of identifying narrative categories have been identified. The concept of a narrative structure according to V.Ya. Propp. The functions of the narrator in the literary text are determined and an attempt is made to classify them. The aim of the article is to theoretically substantiate the concept of narrative analysis. One of the main categories of narratology is the category of the narrator. The article describes in detail the concept of narrative temporality (time), which is one of the most important properties of narrative works. The problem of actualization of narrative discourse in literary studies arises not by chance - the contours of the new methodology are largely determined by the possibility of multiple theoretical modifications of the modern research process.The narrator, as the central essence of the concept, arises as a complexly organized subject with many ways of his own expression, an intermediary between the real world, to which the biographical author belongs, and the fictional world of a work of art; depicted by the symbolically significant world of the literary work and the cognitive competence of the reader. The narrator's phenomenon is diverse and multifaceted. Each new work of art is a new narrator. That is why the problem of grammatical manifestations of the narrator and his typology open a wide space for further theoretical and practical research in the field of narratology and semantics of discourse. Due to the considerable freedom of the text, the narrator has the opportunity to penetrate into the inner world of the characters, to address the readers, to enter into controversy with the author. The problem of the narrator in fiction opens wide opportunities for further theoretical and practical research in the field of narrative science and semantics of discourse.