The purity of genre and "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt [Текст] / A. Muntian, I. Shpak

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The purpose of this article is an attempt to categorize a literary work by Donna Tartt under the title "A Secret History". Current investigation aims at considering the literary work by Donna Tartt "A Secret History" from the point of view of postmodern aesthetics. Having analyzed a number of scientific works of distinguished scholars in the field of literary studies the authors come to the conclusion that it is impossible to place any postmodern literary work in the frame of one genre. The number of topics and issues a postmodern writer touches in his or her work may be infinite, thus genre characteristic features or attributes of a literary work are as well: under postmodernism the text itself is omnipotent and cannot be restricted to one genre, thus we support Mikhail Bakhtin’s and other scientists thought regarding the nonexistence of the purity of genre and point out characteristic features of different genres presented in one literary text, i.e. "A Secret History" novel by Donna Tartt.