DONNA TARTT’S POETICS OF THANATOS (BASED ON THE NOVEL “THE SECRET HISTORY”)
Journal: Bulletin of Udmurt University Series History and Philology
Year: 2020

The aim of the current research is the study and description of the literary depiction of death in Donna Tartt’s fiction. The death in the work under consideration is not only presented at the textual levels of themes, ideas, and images, it also fulfils a plot-forming function, it defines the chronotope and the narrative peculiarities of the novel. Inclusion of the gloomy landscape descriptions in the novel contributes to the suspense creation. The dichotomies of “Chaos - Cosmos” and “Eros - Tha