Mythological Intertext in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Prose

The master's dissertation is devoted to the study of the means of creating intertextual relations in the short stories by S.D. Krzhizhanovsky with myths, author's interpretation of mythological plots, images and motives. The aim of the work is to study the features of poetics by means of identification of intertextual connections with myths in Krzhizhanovsky's prose. To achieve this goal, the following tasks are solved in the work: • to study the specifics of intertecuality in Krzhizhanovsky's oeuvre works; • to identify and analyze mythological reminiscences in Krzhizhanovsky's novels; • to study the specific nature of the author's interpretation of mythological images, motives and plots; • to reveal the features of the individual author's mythology. In the theoretical part of the article the types and functions of intertextuality are studied, the classification of intertextual means is given, the specificity of the mythological intertext is determined. The practical part of the study contains general description of the intertext in Krzhizhanovsky's prose , novels are analyzed and methods and techniques of creating intertextual connections are determined, conclusions are drawn on the individual originality of the mythological intertext. Mythological figurativeness, appealing to the eternal, is often associated with a satirical depiction of Soviet realities, thus forming oppositions of the sacral and profane, high and low, eternal and "material." At the same time, the eternal in the texts by S.D. Krzhizhanovsky exists on the figurative, symbolic level, and reality, topicality - on the stylistic, the language levels. Rethinking and reinterpreting of the mythological images and plots, their interfacing with philosophical and literary intertext, creating paradoxical, unexpected plots within the framework of the single metacultural space and time-all these make it possible to talk about the creation of S.D. Krzhizhanovsky own author's myth.