«Living not in a gateway but in history». Literature-centered depiction of historical events in the novel «Green marquee» by L. Ulitskaya

Abstract. The article points out poetic principles of history description in the novel «Green marquee» by L. Ulitskaya (2011). The author’s total perception of the literature-centered Russian history of the 18th–20th centuries was embodied in the writer’s books by means of a few invariants: dialogue-based intertexual communication with the precedent fiction, symbolic metaphors of culture heritage objects, foreigners’ external perception of Russian historical realia and appellation bearing hints at analogy between the history of Russia and that of other countries.