CZYTELNIK „POUCZANY” CZYLI O POWIEŚCIOWEJ STRATEGII CZERNYSZEWSKIEGO NA PRZYKŁADZIE PROLOGU
THE “INSTRUCTED” READER OR ON THE NOVEL STRATEGY OF CHERNISHEVSKI ON THE EXAMPLE OF PROLOGUE

Summary/Abstract: The present article considers the structural features (narration, the construction of the presented world, and the plot within it) of Prologue of Chernishevski from the point of view of their significance for the picture of the virtual reader contained in the text. The manner of narration — using techniques of the point of view, creates the appearance of polyphonic novel with the reader attached to it, and free of all the pressures of the author. However, the whole of the text hierarchizes the particular points of view in such a way that it implies the homophonic content as a result. Such a novel strategy gives the reader a certain freedom of interpretation only for the reader to assume by means of trial and error out of all the points of view the one which is the result of his own choice, but which has the author’s authority. This gives the illusion of objective novel which serves to convince the reader that the truths contained in it result from the logic of life itself.

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