NOVELS M. KUZMINS AS A GENRE-CYCLICAL UNITY
The article considers the possibility of combining two novels M. Kuzmin´s "Wonderful life of Joseph Balsamo, count Cagliostro" and "Exploits of Alexander the Great" in cyclic unity.The basis of this approach should be considered the author´s idea about the creation of a series of biographies of great people. So are determined in the article ideological composition proximity works, unity perspective, the relationship with the chronotope, a community of conflict and features genre biography, created by M. Kuzmin. In addition, it is noted that features of narrative structure novels lead to modification of the specified genre in the works of M. Kuzmin. The article also evaluates the experience of the reader´s perception of the novels as a cycle, subject to that the work is being developed as an integrated system unity in the diversity of its historical and artistic context.