MYTH, REALITY AND GROTESQUE IN THE PETERBURG'S STORIES BY N. V. GOGOL
In this article discussed some of the elements forming poetics of Gogol's grotesque as a special form of comical, in particular, the organization of space and time, and the embodiment of the motives of birth and death in it's relation to the Christian tradition. The structure of the comic elements and the issue of forms, types, methods and types has ambiguous interpretation in scintific literature.