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The article offers an interpretation of the earliest conceptual novel by the famous Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin "The Queue" (1985). The authors of the article have implemented a new approach to the text of a modern conceptual novelist. If traditionally V. Sorokin's novel was perceived by critics mainly from the side of the originality of its form, with the actualization of the author's appeal to the pictorial art objects of conceptual artists (I. Kabakov, V. Pivovarov, D. Prigov et al.), then in this article a different research perspective is justified -- the need to look at the Sorokin text as a creative realization of a capacious speech metaphor, as the embodiment of the image of a "language monster" -- the hydro-like essence of a "living" queue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a hypothesis about the functioning of a peculiar unconventional supertextual unity with lyrical metaplot of initiation, cognition and hero's creation by love in I. Brodsky's work. The poem "I was only what" is seen as the semantic centre of this unity: a work that embodies in concentrated form all the main features of the whole cycle. The content and poetic peculiarities of the poem are studied: lyrical plot and subject system, imagological and thematic structure, chronotopical wholeness, intertextual level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the study is to identify the formal and stylistic features of I. Brodsky's artistic narrative in the essay "Journey to Istanbul". The scientific novelty of the study consists in the fact that it offers a different judgment from the traditionally accepted in criticism both about the structural framework of the narrative and about the origins of the imaginary-negative pathos of the narrative facing the East. During the analysis, a number of dual motives were found in the text of the essay (namesake heroes, mirrors, reflections, dreams, etc.) and it was showed that the journey undertaken by Brodsky's auto-hero was not spatial, but temporal, anger directed at Istanbul was a sublimation of his own naivety and utopian dreams of returning to his "hometown". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]