Irina Popova

The article deals with the analysis of Kuprin’s little-studied works from the point of view of precedent phe-nomena usage of Old and New Testament in his stories and essay prose. Researches of The Bible allusions and reminiscences as well as symbolic titles of Kuprin’s stories contribute to deep insight into the author’s intention and ways of creating artistic images.

The article concerns with the functionality of the expression «deaf-dumbness» in the novel «Green marquee» by L. Ulitskaya and states that the intertext under analysis comes from the Bible texts, classical literature enhanced by the supplementary sense of M. Voloshin’s poetry. It is used by the author of «Green marquee» as a superpersonal precedent phenomenon of Russian literature and culture and the authors of the article define its multi-functionality and a variety of artistic expressiveness.

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.

The article reveals functionality of precedent phenomena of M. E. Saltikov-Schedrin’s fairytales in satirical cycles of E. I. Zamyatin’s fairytales and defines the specific artistic encoding of Schedrin’s satire and reference to the historical analogy of narration interpretation. The creative work of the Russian classical writer proves to be a peculiar system-prototype of Zamyatin’s satire.

The article dwells on the problem of life of wandering in the Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century and the second half of the 20th century. It is proved that there is dialogical correlation between the novel «Rudin» by I.S. Turgenev and «Ark for uninvited» by V. E. Maximov, connected with the authors reference to the biblical image of the Wandering Jew and their consideration of its meaning for the revelation of problems and ideas of the novel contents.