AUTHOR’S REFLECTIONS ON PERSON AND PERSONALITY IN C.S. LEWIS’ «THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH»

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the problem of author’s reflections on person and personality in the literary texts of the famous British writer of the twentieth century C.S. Lewis. The main philological theories of the phenomenon of author’s reflections in the literary text are considered. Author’s reflections in a literary text, as a rule, are aimed at finding the causes and meaning of the events depicted, may contain a detailed author’s assessment of the character of the hero, his actions, situation, or they may prescribe the ethical necessity of the hero’s actions. The author’s reasoning about a person can model a conditional situation: describe how the hero would act under certain circumstances. The author’s reflections on anthropological themes in the fairy tale for adults “That Hideous Strength” are analyzed. C.S. Lewis’s reflections on man in “That Hideous Strength” are considered and classified from the point of view of their communicative function. Some aspects of translation of the author’s reflections in “That Hideous Strength” into Russian are discussed. The article attempts to comprehend the role of the author’s reflections on man in the literary anthropology of C.S. Lewis’s imagery.