The Role of Architectonics in the Novel-Puzzle Trust by Hernan Diaz

Explored to the architectonics of the novel Trust by a contemporary American writer Hernan Diaz, its role in explicating the authorial intent, presenting different points of view, defining vectors of interpretation. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the novel’s architectonics significance in developing the author’s image of the depicted aspect of reality. The novelty of the work is determined by its appeal to the problem of relation between the architectonics of a literary work and its narrative strategies - genre characteristics, the type of narration and narrator, the narrative style. The research material is also new, as it has not yet become a subject of study in Russian literary criticism. The introduction of the article offers a review of theoretical literature on the issues of architectonics of a literary work, its functions and constituent elements, and provides a distinction between the concepts of ‘architectonics’ and ‘composition’. The discussion section presents the analyses of H. Diaz’s novel, which has allowed to conclude that its architectonics plays a significant role in creating a unique authorial outlook, ensuring the aesthetic integrity of the text, implementing internal connections and relations between individual elements of the novel, primarily due to specific explication and alternation of points of view.