UDC

821.161.1.0

Authors

Kovtun Natalya Vadimovna, Institute of Philology and Language Communication, Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)

Abstract

The article analyzes the mythology and mythopoetics of the story of searching for truth in L. Ulitskaya’s early works. Special attention is given to The Funeral Party which is regarded as a metatext of world culture, as a hermeneutic game. The author suggests her reader to solve discourse ciphers (from ancient myths to postmodernism) in order to detect traces of the initial scenario intended by the Creator. The conceptual basis of the work was the myth about Medusa as the one knowing the secret of Creation.

Keywords

Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party, myth, Medusa.

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