Keyword: «intertext items»

The paper analyses intertext inclusions from the Silver age poets’ creative work and “red poets” images into L. Ulitskaya’s and Z.Prilepin’s novels. The definition of the author’s position is regarded as the main poetic function of intertext items. It is proved that in the work of both writers “red” poets’ images make for reveal-ing the main idea of the novels delineating characters’ function as well as disclosing the function of peculiar historical epochs: the post-revolutionary 1920s in Z. Prilepin’s novel and the Post-Stalin 1960s-1980s in L.Ulitskaya’s one; intertext items from I. Annensky, K. Balmont, A.Blok, V. Bryusov, S.Esenin, K. Sluchev-sky, F.Sologub and others help to define the mentality of Russian character. The Silver age poetry is con-cluded to be conceptual for the novels Green Marquee and Abode owing to the authors’ comprehension of Russian literature-based mental outlook which doesn’t always have creative spiritual sense.