‘A frightening, scary book about children…’: the Poetics of the Novel ‘The Little Friend’ by D. Tartt

The article is devoted to comprehensive research on the novel Little Friend by D. Tartt. It investigates narrative features and genre characteristics of literary work. immanent method was used in study model: symbolic meaning title, specifics settings plot structure, means characterization, theme racial inequality, intertextuality, photographic ekphrasis novel. contextual allowed us identify ‘southern noir’ novel, as well consider traditional innovative manifestations young adult literature. growing up associated with motives loss, experiencing death, illness, mental pain, disappointment, self-attainment. third-person narration, this only work Tartt where it used, opposite retrospective confessional narration novels Secret History Goldfinch. story told omniscient author who enters mind his character. gives writer possibility focus not inner world main characters but also present historical cultural background, create expressive psychological portraits minor their families. tone quite conversational; narrator very exact describing places. paper concludes that simultaneously contains fiction – through overcoming trials (loneliness, fighting evil / awareness illusory nature ideas about it), literature American South, contexts which play a crucial role for person.