The Literary Features of Pat Barker’s Novel “The Silence of the Girls”

Abstract

The article attempts to analyse the literary features of the novel “The Silence of the Girls” by English writer Pat Barker as an "anti-Iliad". The author considers which works form the basis of the plot of Barker's novel. The features that oppose the novel to the "Iliad" and Euripides' tragedy "The Trojans" are noted.