Compositional Features of a Diegetic Structure in the Series of Works About Echo by Max Frei

In this work, we defined the genre of the "Labyrinths of Echo" cycle by Max Frei as a postmodern detective fantasy with a pronounced detective poetics. We analyzed various types of spaces in the Echo world (geographical, ethnographic, historical and magical) and their functions, as well as studied the socio-political structure of the Echo world as a model of social utopia. We scrutinized the system of characters in the cycle according to the system of literary archetypes by Eleazar Meletinsky and explained the duality theme in Max Frei's novels. We also raised the issue of narrative features of the cycle, protagonist’s language, as well as the general structure of the world, the ultimate goal of which is to justify the appearance of the hero in the Echo world. When doing research, we concluded that the cycle itself was built on the heroic pathos of saving the world with elements of the metafiction genre.