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The article suggests a way of interpreting a literary text in terms of the poetics of the ecstatic, as well as an analysis of ways to describe a character on the edge, formed by such poetics. The artistic space in the novel “The Secret History” can be seen as an experimental field for depicting the dramatic experience of the characters, who consciously decided to ignore the boundaries of conventional morality. The path towards the edge of morality, created by the ecstatic experience, has a correlation with going beyond the geographical borders, the appearance of "holes" in the chronotope, the inaccessible places of sacrament. The narrator’s consciousness, who verbalizes this experience, finds itself on the border of two poles of morality – good and evil. The problem of verbalizing his experience into thinking patterns is solved by the narrator via borrowing means of expression from other characters that also found themselves on the other side of the good (from books by Dante, Dostoevsky). But the anti-moral world is possible only if there is a stable image of what is good, which is realized in the novel form, which gravitates towards the image of the averaged everyday material, balanced structures. An additional confirmation of traditional values are the genres of popular literature –the detective story and the academic novel – thanks to which the poetics of the ecstatic is neutralized.
A.A. Aleksandrova (Sun,) studied this question.