Keyword: «literature intertexts»

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.