ON THE QUESTION OF REALTIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CHRISTMAS TRILOGY "SELECTED GRAIN" (OTBORNOE ZERNO) BY N. LESKOV AND OTHER WORKS OF THE WRITER
The article is devoted to a topical problem of studying Leskov''s works in an intertextual aspect. This article contemplates the problem of analysis of the poetics of the Christmas novels of the writer from the perspective of the intertextual connections with his other works regarding the Christmas trilogy of “Selected grain”. Special attention is focused on the analysis of narrative and figurative adoption. The author comes to the conclusion that in the dialogical space the trilogy is a recipient of the drama “The Spendthrift” (Rasstochitel) and a pretext to an unfinished “story apropos” “Moscow Ghost”, the manuscript of which is in the archives of N. Leskov in Russian Archive of Literature and Arts. The images'' parallelism and thematic adoptions, identified by the author, made it possible to create a whole number of “characters”, to extend the semiotic and the semantic field of works. The problem in the article is studied insufficiently and requires further work.