Abstract
Kazakh writers of postmodern period continued the established traditions of writing literary texts and stories. However, the traditional national writing style was supplemented and reflected by various literary styles from Western literature which brought some changes in postmodern discourse. The article deals with postmodern discourse of Kazakh literature on the basis of one of the distinguished Kazakh novelists – Askar Altay. The author’s productive individual style and readers’ receptive aesthetics are disclosed through the analysis of intertextual semantics in understanding the internal motives of the novelist. The purpose of the research is to determine the intertextual strategies of postmodern discourse through the authors’ intentions and reflection to the readers through a combination of literary mechanisms. The postmodern communication strategies between author and readers were revealed based on the discourse interconnections in the literary text. Based on the contetxtual analysis of the novels by Askar Altay, the problems of new writing style and literary description of postmodern discourse, the research is focused on the main features of the narrative intertextual structure and national identity of postmodern discourse. The research represents the strategy of intertextual functions in the way of the author’s interaction encoding intertextual semantics in literary discourse to influence on the readers and to predict the readers’ reception of intertextual intentions. Keywords: literary text, Askar Altay, intertextuality, postmodern discourse, character image.