The article examines the “narrative about the author” in an interview with E. Nekrasova as part of the trend towards public self-reflection in modern culture associated with the situation of ‘metamodernity’. Literary interviews of writers in the XXI century respond to the need of literary criticism to understand the progress of the author’s work on artistic material and the aesthetic self-manifestation of the creator. The writer as a narrator (responding to the culturally conditioned interviewer’s request) has the opportunity to iden-tify a number of autonomous microthemes within the narrative framework of the question-and-answer form of the classical interview (this type of narrative is fragmented and differs from the “narrative of personal stories” and “mnemic narrative”, identified by researchers; the writer appeals to the personal and collective experience of comprehending writing), which develop into fundamentally important positions of existence within literature as a phenomenon, and their competitiveness may indicate the ranking of positions that are brought to public comprehension. “The narrative about the author” is a reflection on the personal experience of writing. In the “narrative about the author” Nekrasova presents her balancing position in the literary process (otherness, non-inclusion); the author’s mission is stated as a revision of the “literary canon”, the inertia of genres and techniques of writing and the promotion of the female view (“femoptics”) in modern literature.
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Selyutina E.A. On the issue of the author’s self-presentation strategies in the modern literary process: (Based on the material of literary interviews by E. Nekrasova), Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2023, iss. 1, pp. 22—30.