Tatiana Zhukova

Article is devoted to reception of poetry of V. Ya. Bryusov in works of the Russian writers of the beginning of the XXI century L. E. Ulitskaya and Zakhar Prilepin; it is written on material of their new works: novel "Yakov's Ladder" (2015) and "Monastery" (2015). Comes to light that the bryusovsky idea about plurality of the truth becomes conceptual for the latest Russian literature at the description of a postrevolutionary historical era in aspect of the total spiritual crisis which has arisen in the Russian society.

In article the purpose to consider a concept "the Russian song" as the difficult mental education with multipurpose system of expressiveness and pictorialism in the art text including the individual and author's picture of the world which has found reflection in ZakharPrilepin's novel "Monastery" is set. It is proved that a concept "the Russian song" performs the following traditional functions in the work: expression of an author's position; disclosure of the Russian soul (grief, melancholy, daring, poetry); manifestation of the Russian character (patriotism, sincerity, openness); characteristic of psychological state of the hero; means of an emotional discharge, etc. The concept "the Russian song" is close in the representation to concepts "truth", "freedom", "honor". The crisis of spirituality which has happened at the beginning of the XX century has caused formation of new functionality: the Russian song began to perform function of an absurdization of reality ("hand bell"), identifications as adaptability (MoiseySolomonovich's song), function of masking of vicious passions, ideological function that wasn't peculiar to "the Russian song" earlier.

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.