THE CONCEPT OF "ERASING PERSONAL HISTORY” BY CARLOS CASTANEDA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MOTIVE OF DUALITY IN SASHA KRUGOSVETOV'S NOVELLA "THE THIRD MEETING”
One of the urgent problems of modern Russian literature has become the comprehension of Castaneda's concepts in prose works, including in the new Petersburg prose, which is presented by the story “The Third Meeting” by Sasha Krugosvetov. The article shows the specifics of the implementation of the duality motive in the narrative of a modern writer. The essence of the “erasure ofpersonal history” in the work of Carlos Castaneda is considered as a way by which a person's connection with his loved ones is broken, as well as with other aspects of his life. The author's principle of “erasing” doubles is investigated as an artistically modeled concept of “erasing personal history” by Carlos Castaneda. The conclusion is made about the identity of this principle with the idea of “not doing” by Carlos Castaneda.