Narrative as a playground. Between Dog and Wolf by Sasha Sokolov

Weronika Biegluk-Leś

Abstract

Narrative specifity of Sasha Sokolov’s novel Between Dog and Wolf is deter- mined by a tendency to expose liminality, by a fascination of heterogeneity and fluidity of the text’s meanings. The novel’s characters are thus variable, complex and ambiguous. The narrative style shimmers as a sophisticated mix of different types and modes of language, different tones, emotions and attitudes. A scrappy plot can be hardly re-established by reader, which finds herself deeply involved in the play of multi-faceted interferences and altered repetitions.

Keywords:

postmodernizm, narracja, gra, intertekstualność