Varvara Vostrikova

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 proves the interaction of the literary context as ideologically-philosophical factor with characters and lives of the novel «Green marquee» by L. Ulitskaya. Intertextual stylistic devices (allusions, reminiscences, citations, biographies of famous culture public figures, etc) are pointed out and carry out the func-tion of expressing the author’s consciousness and characters' delineation in the book by L. Ulitskaya. The significance of creative work by V. Narbut, N. Gorbanevskaya, Yu. Daniel is defined to solve the problem «literature as destiny».