Keyword: «biblical intertext»

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 functionality of biblical image in Zakhar Prilepin’s novel "Resident" is considered, the meaning of direct citation interfacing and evangelic intertextuality asymmetric variation is revealed. It is proved that the author-narrator expresses axiological poetic manner of work with the help of allusions, reminiscences, interpretations of scenes from the books of the Old and the New Covenant, gives assessment characters, shows the depth of the spiritual crisis of the 1920s leading Russian people to the disaster, determines the ways out the “outer darkness” of the age of civil wars, famine and decay.