Interpretation of literary

§6. Composition of the Text 
The literary text is a complex whole, the elements constituting the 
text arc arranged according to a definite system and in a special 
succession. This kind of a complex organization of a literary production, 
its construction is called composition. Composition of the text is 
stipulated by its contents, it reflects the complexity of 1ife phenomena, 
depicted in the text, and the comprehension of life connections, as well 
as cause and effect relations, characteristic of the given writer. 
Composition of a literary work depends on its plot. A plot is a plan 
of a literary composition reflecting its immediate content. It is a scheme 
of connected events comprising the main stages in the development of 
conflicts and revealing principal traits of people through their actions. 
The plot as any relatively completed moment of a life process has a 
beginning, development and end. The point of departure for a plot 
organization is an exposition — an outline of the environment, 
circumstances and conditions of the described events. A certain kind of 
exposition introduces into the narrative additional information about the 
personages outside the immediate connection with the depicted events: 
some information about the things that preceded the depicted events, 
that took place between these events and, finally, that followed these 
events. In this respect the exposition can give substantial material for 
understanding the ideological essence, conceptual information of the 
text. 
The author may give no exposition at the beginning, but hold it up 
until the initial conflict takes place as an explanation for the latter 
(retarded exposition); he can place it at the end (reverse exposition) etc 
— all that depends on how he understands life in its development and 
how he wants to depict it. 
The next important component that forms the framework of the 
plot is the initial collision. The initial collision represents an event that 
starts action and causes subsequent development of events. 
The exposition doesn't engender action, it only creates a background for 
it, but the initial collision engenders action, thanks to it events begin 
concrete unfolding. 

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The initial collision ensures transition to the next stage—de-