Pre-Texts and Post-Texts: on the Material of A.S. Green’s Prose

Abstract

The study attempts to consider the process of searching for lines of convergence of A. Green’s work with the work of a number of other authors. The intertextual approach to the analysis of the writer's works allows the reader to expand the interpretation of the text in many ways and to discover intertexts and metatexts that are sometimes not revealed at the first acquaintance with the work. If earlier the study of the philosophical and moral aspect of the writer's work, the ideological content of his works and genre originality, the origins of which are seen in mythology, fairy tale, parable, were often brought to the fore, then the intertextual field of the writer's prose has been studied to a lesser extent. The intertextual approach to text analysis allowed us earlier to identify points of convergence of motives, images, language techniques used in the work of A.S. Green and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The main attention is paid to identifying parallels in the prose of A.S. Green and V.V. Nabokov.