The musical paradigm of contemporary Russian prose

The article examines modern prose texts in which music and related art concepts, genres, and forms become an important attribute in the development of the plots of works, in the creation of images of characters, and in the title complex. This point confirms the relevance of this article, which uses an integrated approach to the analysis of literary texts, including interpretative, analytical, intertextual and other methods.As an empirical basis attracted Modern prose texts by Timur Kibirov, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Maxim Zamshev, and Elena Kholmogorova. As a result, it is concluded that intermediality in the modern literary process and its peculiar “musicalization” are a noticeable and promising trend.