本文旨在論析俄國當代作家米哈依爾．列爾創作中的一種敘事形式，即講故事這 種方式。在他這篇富有修辭趣味的心理小說中，「意外結局」的安排占了頭等重要的地位。 意外結局是依照「多聲部」（巴赫金語）原則架構的：同一件事由十一位未具名的敘事者各 自以其所見，並以各自的角度加以敘述，而且是面對讀者作敘述。這種文學手法在世界文壇 上尚未有直接的類同，雖說其中也有某些特點和果戈里、杜斯妥也夫斯基、左琴科、福克納 的創作略為近似。 文中分析了敘事者的社會身份所具有的言語手段、說明各個敘事者的主要心理哲學觀點，闡 述小說在架構「意外結局」上所具的「外部結構」作用。
This essay is dedicated to studying the form of first-person narration in the work of the modern Russian writer Mikhail Veller. In his psychological and stylistically interesting short story, intrigue is what stands out the most. Intrigue has its base on the principle of polyphony (M.Bakhkin): the selfsame event is viewed and interpreted by the eleven anonymous speakers in their own positions. The narration is addressed directly to the reader. Such literary method does not have any analogy in world literature, though its separate features are common to the works of such authors as N. Gogol, F.Dostoevsky, M.Zoschenko, and W.Faulkner. In this essay we analyze the speech means of the social characteristics of the narrators, define the philosophical-psychological dominant of every narrator, and reveal the role of "external construction" in the making of the intrigue of the novel.
