"RESIDENT" BY ZAKHAR PRIPEPIN IN THE CONTEXT OF RUSSIAN CAMP PROSE OF THE 20<sup>TH</sup> CENTURY
The article examines possible pretexts of Zakhar Prilepin’s “Resident” from among the works, falling into the category of Russian camp prose of the late 20<sup>th</sup> century. The plot is based on the story of a young man (called Artem Goryainov) who goes to Solovetsky camp for involuntary manslaughter of his father. At first, Prilepin’s hero is buoyant, brave and lucky, but the stay in the camp’s icebox called Sekirke starts a devastating destruction of his character. Artem literally loses himself, and this psychological disaster becomes the key development of the novel. The article unveils the analysis of the works by Dombrovsky, Shalamov, Dovlatov and Leonov, which touch upon similar topics of a human decline in the camp conditions, The author conducts an intertextual dialogue with these works, which seems to have been planned by Prilepin. The destruction of Goryainov's character manifests features similar to both "the duality of the soul" that destroyed Kornilov, the hero of Dombrovsky's dilogy, and the disastrous processes that stripped Shalamov's characters of all and any humanity, as well as Dovlatov's concept of the man's fatal dependency on his surroundings and circumstances, and the idea of man being forsaken by God, which is very important for Leonov's works. Studying the respective connections of motives and associative parallels of meaning allows for a deeper reading of Prilepin's novel and its world.