Keyword: «author's consciousness»

Article contains results of studying of functionality of the artistic touch used by L. E. Ulitskaya in many works 1990 – 2015kh years for expression of an author's position in the art text. It is about introduction of the signs symbols performing functions of the words signaling that directly the opinion on this or that act of the hero or on any event represented in the work expressed by the storyteller is author's provocation contains a language ironical game with the reader behind which it is necessary to find the truth. Signs symbols are considered in the story "Queen of spades", the story "Through Line" and novels "Medea and Its Children" and "Green Tent". The prospect of the analysis of the words signals "life shadow" and "Yakov's ladder" in the novel of 2015 "Yakov's Ladder" is also planned. The main conclusion is drawn that in L prose. Ulitskaya the case phenomena playing a role of words signals at the same time carry out a role of the markers indicating true author's assessment of characters, reveal an author's plan and the main idea of the work.

In article the analysis of the signs symbols "life shadow" and "Yakov's ladder" which allow to realize a plan of the author of the novel is given and to define the central idea of the work consisting in a thought of need of transformation of "life in life", of the importance of spiritual development of the person which needs to define sense of the life correctly. It is proved that two case phenomena are conceptual symbols, dividing characters into two groups: living terrestrial life (Marusya, Heinrich) and seeking for transformation of "life in life".