The comic peculiarity in late creativity
The paper discusses specificity of the comic in late creativity of Vsevolod Sergeevich Solovyev (1843-1903). An analysis is made of the novels Evil Vortices and The Tsars Embassy. In the first novel, the comic and ridiculous situations lay bare an absurd style of thinking of separate representatives of para-religious trends. The second novel shows specificity of dialogue of cultures, as well as the curious aspects of social and domestic life of pre-Pertine Russia. On the basis of the analysis it is established that in the early works the author considered mainly tragic and drama aspects of historical and social life, but in the late creativity the writer uses another approach to elucidate the past and the present.