Genre Metamorphosis. Psychogram of Serial Killer (Based on Thomas Raab Novel “Silence”)

The article is devoted to the problem of genre hybridization in the novel “Silence. One Killer Chronicle” by modern Austrian writer Thomas Raab. The composition and structure of the novel as a “text in motion”, as becoming of being has been analyzed. The problems of an individual in the context of authoritative power discourse, marginality, Michel Focalut’s nomadism have been elucidated. The final of the novel’s content has been revealed as apotheosis of pain for creativity, feelings sublimation, as birth of an artistic piece and, at the same time, “death of the author”, who exposes discourses, responsible for generating texts which are assigned to him.