Paradox and nonsense as methods of influencing the reader

This article is based on the realization that today there are many ways to spend your free time with pleasure and interest. Nevertheless, reading books, especially works of fiction, is still a popular way to spend time. Since there are many such works, both Russian and foreign writers are forever searching for how to write a work that would catch the reader's attention with its originality and not let go of the last page. The most interesting literary methods of influencing the reader are paradox and nonsense. The paradox, being a contradiction, challenges the usual ideas and encourages us to look at things from a new perspective. Through him, there is a confrontation with outdated norms. A technique can be called a paradox if it contains an expression of the dialectical interaction of opposites, the revelation of truth in contradiction, and the unexpected discovery of a contradiction in life by a paradox. Based on the contradiction the author wants to portray in his work, philosophical, historical, characterological, plot and ironic paradoxes are highlighted. Being nonsense, nonsense, in turn, forces the reader to look for new meanings in the work. This is facilitated by its features: play, rejection of beauty, the presence of drawings, the creation of new words. Nonsense is associated with two main sciences: philosophy and linguistics. In accordance with this, there are two types of it: philosophical and linguistic. Philosophical nonsense has no limits, like philosophical questions, its meanings are endless. Linguistic is realized through the word, which is the main building material of nonsense.