Intertextual connections of postmodern prose
The term "intertextuality" is widely used in modern literary criticism. It denotes a set of unconscious and meaningful intertextual connections. Postmodern works appeared in Russian literature in the 1990s. The article aims to study postmodern prose, in which gospel motives take various forms - from the title of a work to the conception of organising a system of images. The appeal of contemporary prose writers to the Bible testifies to the spiritual demands of Russian society. The relevance of a particular work is manifested through the interaction of this work with others in the general intertextual space of culture. Signs that go back to other narratives can be combined in a newly created text. They supplement and refine the new text. The article points out that postmodernism is a communicative strategy for influencing readers, and therefore it cannot be viewed as a direction that is equivalent to the classics - realistic literature. Studying the concept "intertextuality", the author concludes that gospel motives influence the literary process and its development. There are different forms of such interaction: explicit and implicit quotation; titles referring to the text of the Bible; some kind of "exposure" of the architectonic connections of a work with the Gospel.