Concept of the expression «poetry – stolen air» in the novel «Green marquee» by L. Ulitskaya

Abstract. The article decodes the poetic-philosophical sense of the expression «poetry-stolen air» which is the main concept of the novel «Green marquee» by L. Ulitskaya, and analyses mutually connected intertext units «Russian metaphysics», «power of the Russian word», that determine the motive and leitmotif structure of the literary work.