Keyword: «a.i. kuprin»

The article explores the novel by A. Kuprin «Duel» from the point of view of realization of the most important concept for the writer «own-other». The concept is actualized at all levels of the ideological and poetic system of the work, including in various systems of heroes. The poetics of female images becomes a special form of artistic representation of the concept «own-other» in the novel.