Marina Glazkova

The article analyzes the use of nature images in the works of F. Iskander. It is noted the importance of nature for the "natural" man, who is in close spiritual connection with it. The understanding of nature by Chegem people as a kind of animate being with divine power is actualized. The author comes to the conclusion about polyfunctionality of nature in the works of F. Iskander and highlights its main functions.

The article discusses the images of the characters with in the novel by V. Maximov "the Seven days of creation" fundamental to the realization of the author of the Christian concept. Notes the meaning of the sacred symbols, their connection to the Universe, which are reflected in Christian aesthetics.

The article is devoted to analysis of literary device of a dream, which plays a significant role in the composition of the work and it is a multipurpose device. The originality of dreams in the novel by Maksimov is emphasized, which is expressed in complex, many-sided symbolism. It is due to the fact that they express not only the hero’s condition but also the author's concept. Dreams allow him to show the shifts in attitude that the hero has not clearly understood yet. Dreams help Maksimov’s heroes to understand the inner changes that came over their lives.

This article is devoted to the discovery of the reception conceptual meaning of Valery Bryusov's poetry in the novel "Resident" by Zakhar Prilepin. It is proved that a wide allusive series of citation from the Silver Age poetry contains an allusion to the poem "Mason" by Brusov which is the main poetic code that reveals the basic idea of the work, declaring the people departure from the Christian axiology as the cause and disastrous result of the revolutionary events of the first third of XX century in Russia.

The functionality of biblical image in Zakhar Prilepin’s novel "Resident" is considered, the meaning of direct citation interfacing and evangelic intertextuality asymmetric variation is revealed. It is proved that the author-narrator expresses axiological poetic manner of work with the help of allusions, reminiscences, interpretations of scenes from the books of the Old and the New Covenant, gives assessment characters, shows the depth of the spiritual crisis of the 1920s leading Russian people to the disaster, determines the ways out the “outer darkness” of the age of civil wars, famine and decay.