Oriental Narrator’s Image in Leonid Leonov’s Short Story “Tuatamur”

Aim. To study the poetics of narration in L. M. Leonov’s short story “Tuatamur” by analyzing the chronotope, the features of plot construction, the image and speech of the exotic narrator. Methodology. Comparative and historical-literary methods were used in the course of this study. The content of the study is to identify the features of the spatial and temporal organization of the text, genre elements in the structure of the narrative and narrative techniques. The analysis of the views of researchers of Leonov’s early work on the organization of narration in his stories of the 1920s is given. Results . The analysis showed that the poetics of narration in “Tuatamur” serves to express the idea of the cyclical nature of time and historical process, it consists of explicit and implicit values. Based on an analysis of narrative techniques, it was established that features of myth and legend are reflected in the work. Research implications. The view on the problems of Leonov’s early work has been updated. The poetics of narration on behalf of the participant of the Mongol-Tatar invasion, the specific structure of the composition, the idea of the cyclical nature of time and the value approach to the inner world of man in the story “Tuatamur” are revealed.