THE PECULIARITIES OF DESTRUCTION OF “THE FOURTH WALL” IN THE WORKS OF JONATHAN STROUD

Purpose. The article is devoted to the study of the concept of “the fourth wall” in modern English-language fiction. The goal of the research is to analyze the peculiarities of the use of “breaking the fourth wall” technique in the works of Jonathan Stroud Lockwood & Co. and The Bartimaeus trilogy. Research methods include the analysis of scientific literature, the method of continuous sampling of material and the method of linguistic description of data. Results. After analyzing the definition of the term “fourth wall” and the features of its “destruction”, as well as considering this phenomenon in the books of Jonathan Stroud, we can conclude that the author deliberately blurs the boundaries between the real world and the fictional to achieve an educational goal and comic effect. Practical implications. The received results can be used in the courses of literary criticism, interpretation of literary text