French and Russian reality in A. Makin's novel "Dreams of My Russian Summers"
The paper is devoted to the research of particularities of autobiographic novel “Dreams of My Russian Summers” (“Testament français”) by French writer of Russian origin, A. Makin, published in 1995, which won two top French awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. The reception of France, its culture and language is shown in the fictional story of a boy's and his French grandmother's memories and experience in Soviet Russia. Concentric narrative structure, fragmentariness of past recollections, endless magic nights that children had passed with their grandmother, mysterious land of Atlantis and gloomy soviet weekdays - all these techniques help the writer to support the reader's mental activity. The novel shows difficult intersection of Russian and French realities. France and Russia are transformed by the boy's fantasy and grandmother's memory in special worlds, the cross area of the present and the past.