Leonid Andreev and development vectors of 20th century literature
The paper approaches Andrew’s works as a «transition» not from realism to modernism but from modernism to pre-postmodernism. The mythopoetics, proved productive in Lagerkvist’s myth novels, and the functions of intertext, metatext, game, parody, joke in the «little comedies» and small prose of the 1910s, which foreshadow the poetics of Kharms, Nabokov, Platonov, etc., are shown to play an important role in Andreev’s prose.