Abstract: The subject of this research is the works of the famous contemporary Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. The object of the study is their narrative structure. The author of the article characterizes Atwood's narratives as life-descriptive narratives, in which the narrator occupies a central position. The narrator in Atwood's works is usually also the main character. Atwood's texts create a total space for her narrators. One of the foundations for creating a narrative in Atwood's work is myth. Atwood uses ancient Greek, European, and indigenous myths to construct plots. This variety reflects the young Canadian identity, which Atwood herself compares to the mentality of "settlers." In her work with mythological plots, Atwood willingly blends myths of different origins. Drawing on the contributions of both domestic and foreign researchers of Atwood's legacy, as well as Atwood's own literary works, the author of the article describes the place of myth in the structure of Atwood's retrospective, life-descriptive narratives. Narrative, cultural-historical, and cultural-social methods are utilized. The novelty of this research lies in the fact that the author conducts a sequential, in-depth analysis of Atwood's overall approach to myth, whereas most studies on this topic typically focus on how Atwood engages with a specific mythological plot. The author divides Atwood's work with myth into four levels, depending on how heavily Atwood relies on the mythological plot when constructing her own narrative. Thus, Atwood may use myth as the meaning-generating foundation for the entire plot — the first level. Alternatively, Atwood may use an ancient plot to describe national color — the second level. Sometimes myth serves Atwood to discuss the stereotypes of contemporary society — the third level; or to talk about the principles of art — the fourth level.

Abstract: The subject of the research is the death in prose by the famous modern Canadian writer Margaret Atwood (b. 1939). The object of the research are the novels and short stories of the author (novels "The Blind Assassin", "Cat's Eye", "Lady Oracle" etc.). The author of the article pays special attention to the biographical narratives of the Canadian writer, in which the main character is also the narrator. Stories of storytellers by M. Atwood, as a rule, always unfolds retrospectively – from the present to the past. During their journey, the narrating characters mentally return to the past and conduct "negotiations with the dead." Based on the researches of M. Atwood's legacy, as well as on the literary works of the Canadian writer herself, the author of the article describes the place of the theme of death in her retrospective narratives. The author of the article comes to the following conclusions. 1) The theme of death is one of the key themes in her work. Atwood, since the retrospective narrative of the biography itself involves an appeal to the past, to the world of the dead. Remembering, the main character, the narrator, mentally makes a journey into the world of the past, which M. Atwood rhymes with the afterlife. 2) The creative process, the creation of a story in the writer's artistic world, takes place during "negotiations with the dead", when the hero-narrator mentally addresses people from his past. 3) Death in the works of M. Atwood often appears in the form of a relic, an archaeological find, a lost and rediscovered thing. The difficult process of exhumation and extraction from the ground is consonant with the equally difficult process of dissecting the narrator's own complexes and resentments.

Abstract: The subject of the research in this article is the narrative strategy of life description in the work of Margaret Atwood. Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) is a well–known modern Canadian writer, poet, and literary critic. The work of M. Atwood is considered in three main directions: the search for Canadian identity in the works of M. Atwood; the women's question and theories of feminism in the works of M. Atwood and speculative (conceptual) fiction in the works of M. Atwood. It is these three areas that the largest number of scientific papers about the Canadian writer are devoted to. Based on the life and creative path of M. Atwood, these three highways are justified. But behind them, the basis of the writer's work is lost – the narrative structure, to the study of which M. Atwood devoted many of her literary works. Based on the best practices of foreign and domestic narrative researchers, as well as on the research of M. Atwood herself, in this article we describe how a multi-level narrative of biography unfolds in the writer's fiction, implying a division into narrative layers. Each narrative layer is responsible for a certain time: the past, the present and the timelessness. The relevance and novelty of this article lies in an attempt to describe the narratives of M. Atwood, in isolation from the three main paths, and highlight the features of the narrative of the biography, which is key to the author's works. Thanks to the strategy of biography, the Canadian writer explores the nature of human memory, thinking, and fantasy. By placing the main character, the narrator, at the center of the narrative, M. Atwood allows her characters to independently analyze their own actions, their past, which brings her characters closer to real people. The characters of the writer, like real people, have general ideas about how a story should be built, a story and use literary techniques in talking about themselves. But, gradually opening up, the characters are the narrators of M. Atwood turns to a frank conversation, discarding literary decorations.
The approach to the work of M. Atwood from the point of view of narrative, narratology helps to open new facets in the work of the famous author, to emphasize and actualize many artistic features of M. Atwood's books. Atwood, who remain in the shadows with a cultural and ideological approach.