The article investigates the specific features of the author’s mask functioning in the stories by M. Volkov. By using the comparative-historical and holistic method of analysis of a literary work, the author has established that the comic mask of Grandad Antrop, which possesses self-consciousness and shows the author's "willfulness", often changes the tone and is a means for creating a formal distance between the reader and the "real" author. On the one hand, it hides the real author, but on the other it immerses the reader in the fictional world, of which the fictitious author is an integral part. Antrop is a typically comical figure functioning in the framework of the joke that he tells himself. His stories are comical and their plot develops in a paradoxical way. All of these stories have an element of carnival. Antrop’s actions violate all laws of logic. The stories he tells are presented as an objective "fact" of life, set out in the form of a game.
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