Story Event in the Novel “The Confessor” by D. Silva

The article examines the story event in the spy novel “The Confessor” (2003) by Daniel Silva. D. Silva’s creative work is for the first time subjected to a literary analysis; the structural approach is for the first time applied to reveal specificity of the spy novel genre. The study focuses on the “plot event”, analyses its aspects, such as chronotope, situation, collision, story event. The researcher reveals specificity of correlation of the plot and story, ascertains the role of the extra-plot event, identifies the “minus-techniques” and retardation techniques that contribute to developing the genre model of a spy novel.