E. Radaeva

THE POETICS OF JOHN BOYNE’S NOVEL «THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS». AN INTERMEDIAL ASPECT OF PLOT INTERPRETATION

This article examines the poetics and educational potential of John Boyne’s novel «The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas», as well as its film adaptation. The study leads to the following conclusions: a) from philosophical and intertextual per-spectives, the young protagonists of Boyne’s novel can symbolize the deceived Germa...