Keyword: «crisis life»

The object of the study is the novel by E.V. Vodolazkin "Laurel". The purpose of the study is to identify the ways of the author's intention in the novel. The study of the work is carried out through intent analysis, comparative historical and hermeneutic methods. The article defines the intention, examines the ideological and thematic content in interdependence with the architectonics of the work, its genre specifics, spatial and temporal organization, and the techniques used. As a result, the ways of expressing the author's intention are determined, including the syncretic genre chosen by the writer – a crisis life; methods of con-tamination, allusions, motives of the road, birch bark letters, salvation and redemption, allowing to organize an eschatological discourse; a collective image of the main character