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Genre Originality of Novel by M. Vargas Llosa āGreen Houseā
The genre nature of the novel āGreen Houseā by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is analyzed in the article. Special attention is paid to three approaches to the definition of the genre: āGreen Houseā as a total novel, as a chivalric novel and as an Indianist novel. Definitions of each genre under consideration are given. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the prevailing approaches to defining the genre of the āGreen Houseā in contemporary Latin American studies is analyzed in the paper. In the course of the work seven stable characteristics of the total novel are distinguished: a radically realistic authorās intention, a clear structural organization of the text, compositional and semantic unity, the consciousness of the infinity of language, the comprehensiveness of the novel, nonlinearity of narration, and the use of dialogue as a structure-forming device. The question of the presence in the novel āGreen Houseā of signs of a chivalric romance is considered. The results of a comparative analysis of the āGreen Houseā and the Catalan novel āTyrant Whiteā are presented. A comparison of the structure of the āGreen Houseā and the generalized structure of the Indianist novel is given, the key features of this genre are analyzed. It is concluded that in the case of the āGreen Houseā it is impossible to come to genre definiteness. The authors dwell on the fact that āGreen Houseā is a work of fiction that combines elements of different genres, without any other restrictions in interpretations, except for those directly rejected by the text