Culture Literary Code of the Modern Russian Readers
The article is devoted to the culture code which is considered to be one of the most important phenomena of culturology. The culture code guarantees nation's survival and its further development. A lot of scientific papers written by R. Barthes, C. Rapaille, A.I. Kravchenko, V.V. Krasnykh and by many other researchers deal with the culture code which is defined as the culture unconscious phenomenon, imperceptible with mind but revealing itself in people's behavior. Nowadays the culture code problem is the most pressing for many fields of science, among which are philosophy, linguistics, culturology, political studies, sociology. Having a command of the national culture code helps ordinary people and government representatives to understand the cultural peculiarities of the nation and to determine the strategies for the national further development. The culture code is often referred to as the nation's mindset. To keep the national and cultural identity safe, ethical and spiritual customs and traditions undamaged is very important for up-to-date Russia, and the given problem is raised at the highest government levels. We suppose that the importance of the national cultural heritage is increasing, while the forward social movement of our country is being determined. The fiction works' texts present a large fragment of the national cultural heritage. Besides, they are considered to be the channels to transmit the national culture code. We suggest that the fiction works' texts should contain versatile anthropological and ontological ideas and values to be able to reflect the national culture code and be interesting or claiming for people for all time. Such fiction works' texts - the classics - are included in the opinion poll of the Russian readers which is named “The list of 100 best books from the beginning of time,” and show the readers' preferences. We have tried to analyze “the List.” aiming to find out a set of authors and their works that represent and still have been creating the culture literary code of our compatriots. The results of the statistical data analysis let us supposedly find out that the dominant of the cultural literary code of modern Russian readers is presented by the fiction works' texts of F. Dostoevsky, L. Tolstoy, N. Gogol, A. Pushkin, M. Bulgakov, A. Chekhov, the Strugatskys brothers, W. Shakespeare, E.M. Remarque. The list of bibliography containing eight sources of information on the above-mentioned subject concludes the article.