Abstract
The article discusses the relationship between the functions of the author and the narrator’s in the romantic literary text based on the example of Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov's novel "Hero of Our Time". By analyzing the structure of the text, the complex structure of relations between the author, the narrator and the main protagonist, and the impact of this structure on the perception of the text by the reader is shown.
Key words
Complex structure, romanticism, author, narrator, narratology, function of the reader