The research aims to solve the problem associated with the specifics of expressing the spiritual and moral imperative of the hero-narrator in Jaume Cabré’s novel “Confessions”. The article analyzes the techniques of representing in the fictional narrative the hero’s confession of his personal responsibility for the events of World War II. The scientific originality lies in the fact that Jaume Cabré’s “Confessions” was considered for the first time in the context of other works of modern foreign prose on similar topics from the perspective of narrative discourse, as well as taking into account the identification of the concept of awareness of guilt as a text-forming strategy. The research found that Jaume Cabré, with his novel “Confessions”, made a significant contribution to the development of the Holocaust theme in Western European and American literature of the early 21st century, offering new narrative techniques that emphasize the main moral paradigm of the novel. The genre specificity of a “novel within a novel” defined the narrative plan of the work, the nonlinearity of the composition, the mirroring of episodes and characters, the ambiguity and multidimensionality of images, and the indistinguishability of the hero-narrators. The “medical-literary discourse” of the unreliable narrator was the main narrative strategy in organizing the spatio-temporal model of the novel and contributed, along with the stylistic features of the diary form of narration, to creating a sense of personal responsibility of the protagonist for the genocide of the Jewish people during World War II.
Larisa Aleksandrovna Meshcheryakova (Thu,) studied this question.