RUSSIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE MOTIVES IN A. IVANOV'S NOVEL "A GEOGRAPHER WHO DRANK A GLOBE AWAY"
The novel by А. Ivanov «A Geographer Who Drank a Globe Away» is interpreted through the prism of intertextuality play. In the article the author discovers in the analyzed novel motives of Russian classical literature that reveal a traditional trend for Russian mentality consisting in a spiritual search, finding a pathway, bearing a cross, devotion, submission and riot.