F. DOSTOEVSKY AS A HERO OF A POSTMODERNIST QUEST IN V. PELEVIN’S NOVEL “t”

Key words: Count T, F. Dostoevsky, zombies-dead, quest, Optina Pustyn, Petersburg, K. Pobedonostsev, L. Tolstoy, axe, shooter V. Pelevin’s novel “t” is a non-linear and multidimensional text that suggests various reading options. The non-linearity of the text is established with the help of hypertextuality, that is, the transition from one text into another via internal links, which is characteristic of the poetics of postmodernism. The original text is correlated with other texts that the reader discovers for himself using alternative authorial references. The multidimensionality of the text is created by intertextuality, in which the references to other sources are not highlighted, but they become a way of generating one’s own text. Therefore, all sorts of citations, allusions, reminiscences and other elements of the artistic system become text-forming and meaning-forming, thanks to which one’s own construction of creativity is created on the basis of deconstruction of “foreign” texts. V. Pelevin reconstructs the mythologemes that have developed around F. Dostoevsky, and sometimes creates new ones himself. Thus, the postmodernist aesthetics of V. Pelevin’s novel “t” in the fragments related to F. Dostoevsky was formed according to the following intertextual paradigms, which can be divided into three thematic groups: intertextual paradigms based on biographical facts, intertextual paradigms based on F. Dostoevsky’s works of art, intertextual paradigms based on “A Writer’s Diary”, articles, notes, letters, other records of F. Dostoevsky and other sources.