Грехът

The article sets out the hypothesis that the symbolic space in fiction, its subtext could be created from an alternative sense-generating centre, in relation to the main plot design, which could construct an anti-plot. It does not supplement or clarify the main plot organized by the story, it just deconstructs it. The work of such a mechanism is demonstrated by an analysis of Jordan Jovkov"s short story "Ivan Belin"s Sin". While the conventional plot presents a resistance and postponement of completing the main events of the story - the meeting of the shepherd with the she-wolf that he kills and that has two cubs, in the sub-text space the two protagonists run one toward the other exchanging mutually asymmetrical binary semantic features so that they change places - the she-wolf acquires human characteristics while the shepherd symbolically turns into a wolf.