Intertextuality in the book by Pavel Ulitin "Makarov scratches the back of his head"

The article attempts to analyze the ways of representing intertextuality using the book Makarov Scratches His Head by Pavel Ulitin as the material. The contextual method was employed to interpret the role of intertextuality during the research. Two most numerous groups of intertextual units were identified: intertextual inclusions in the form of proper names with precedent and intertextual inclusions from the variety of literary texts. These intertextual inclusions belong to various cultures: European, Russian, American, Chinese, and others. The broad cultural and historical context is further supplemented by intertextual inclusions in German, English, French, and Polish, which complicates the automatic perception of the text. Not all intertextual units referring to literary works are easy to identify while reading, as they correspond to the reproduced pretext to varying degrees. Intertextual inclusions acquire new shades of meaning, sometimes very personal ones. This complex text, constructed like a mosaic from his own and other people’s phrases, voices, and memories, with numerous intertextual units, serves as an example of the unique style of the writer. By using different voices and intertext as part of a hidden narrative and a means of self-censorship, Ulitin creates a coded text that does not appeal to the reader.