STYLISTIC DIVERSITY OF ALTERNATE-HISTORICAL LITERARY TEXTS

The article explores the stylistic diversity of alternate history literary texts on the example of works belonging to different national literatures, namely A. Anikin's novella «Death in Dresden», F.K. Dick's novel «The Man in the High Castle» and K. Newman's novel «Anno Dracula». In the course of the analysis, the following problems have been considered: why the variety of styles is characteristic of the alternate history genre, whether the stylistic models of the classical and fantastic types of alternate history novels differ, thanks to which method of narrative organization a sense of narrative authenticity is created, and in which cases the reader immediately manages to understand that what is written is fiction. The results can be used in the further development of the typology of alternate history fiction and the identification of trends in the development of the modern literary process. The article uses typological, structural and cultural-historical methods of literary analysis.