Abstract
<jats:p>The aim of the study is to characterize the verbal embodiment of the category of confessional retrospection in the novel genre. The article treats the category of confessional retrospection within an interdiscourse – a hybrid discourse format created at the intersection of two polar conceptual domains: literary fiction and law. Through the prism of the novel’s text the linguistic personality of the author‑creator and their individual authorial worldview, shaped by the writer’s unique life and professional experience, are foregrounded. The scientific originality lies in the development of a typology of the category of confessional retrospection in novelistic prose. The paper advances the hypothesis that three types of confessional retrospection function – the generic, the philosophical‑aesthetic, and the poetic – which find expression in both conventional and unconventional for the novel genre ways of linguistically embodying the author’s worldview. The research shows that the phenomenon of confessionality, operating in the hybrid discourse format as the category of confessional retrospection, renovates the novel by incorporating verbal‑creative techniques and expressive means atypical for the genre, thus enabling transmission of the creator’s ideological stances.</jats:p>