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Abstract. In the article the poetics of narration in M. Kuraev's story Night watch is considered. On the basis of the analysis of leitmotif image of Petersburg-Leningrad the features of two interconnected types of narration (author's, in the third person and in the first person) are consistently revealed with the purpose of defining the originality of a writer's artistic method.

Key words and phrases: тип повествования, образ повествователя, дискурс, сказ, образ Петербурга-Ленинграда, type of narration, image of storyteller, discourse, narration in the first person, image of Petersburg-Leningrad