Narrator in the Biographical Novels: A Typological Comparison

Abstract

The notion of the image of author was introduced to the subject of literature by the Russian critic V.Vinogradov in 20th of the last century. M.Bakhtin, R.Barthes, V.Khalizev and others developed the theory working out the types of image of author, voice, narrative techniques. Nowadays this problem is still being the center of attention of literary criticism and different approaches make clarities to it from various aspects.In the research we attempt to discuss about the image of author in the two biographical novels and show the similarity and diversity of styles being used. Through the typological comparison of American (“The Agony and the Ecstasy”(1961) by Irving Stone) and Uzbek (“RuziChoriyev’s last will”(2008) by N. Normatov) novels we try to elicit author’s point of view and give our interpretation.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n9p357