Modern Existentialist Novel

The paper focuses on the phenomenon of code-mixing, i.e. functioning of the units of various textual systems within the frame of one text, which is realized in modern existentialist novels and proves to be one of the main tendencies of postmodern literature. The subject-matter of the analysis is the thematic, conceptual, genre levels and the level of literary discourse strategies of the artistic narrative. The code-mixing demonstrates specific qualities at each of the levels: a great number of different themes and messages discussed in literary works; multiculturalism; genre contamination, developing of new genres and subgenres; intertextuality of new types and forms, interrelation of elements inherent to various discourses and semiotic systems. The authors of the article conclude that reading and analyzing fiction of code-mixed nature imply such methodological tactics as identifying markers of different codes, defining their functions and resulting effect of interaction within a particular novel. These steps contribute to more adequate understanding, interpreting and decoding of elaborate existentialist texts

Code-mixing · Code-switching · Epistemology · Existentialism · Linguistics · Physics · Programming language · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Philosophy