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The article initially discusses the potential reception of the cover of the first edition of the novel by Aleksander Minkowski entitled Valley of Light. Next, the article passes to the strategy contained in the novel’s exposure: focalization, narrative style and relations of the protagonist with other characters, as well as sources of potential conflict constructing the story, are analyzed. In these analyzes, the model reader of this youth novel is taken into account, as well as the emotions that individual stylistic holds and great narrative figures can evoke. In this perspective, the concepts of Gaston Bachelard, Roland Barthes and Rita Felski are used, among others.