GENDER PICTURE OF THE WORLD IN THE NOVEL "THE TRIAL BY DEATH OR THE IRON PHILATELIST" BY M. ARBATOV AND SH. D. GUPTA
The article considers representations of the gender picture of the world in modern Russian literature and their connection with the phenomenon of “women's writing”. It also examines metatext as a way of interaction of fiction and non-fiction strategies in the novel “The Trial by Death or the Iron Philatelist” by M. Arbatova and Sh. D. Gupt and auto-meta description as an option in creating a text about the text. In addition, we reveal the nature of demythologization and remythologization trends,`showing the correlation between “male” and “female” models of genre strategies within a single text. In the first case, the “male” model manifests itself through translation and an open parody of the genre features of a spy novel: “James Bond” and one of the model variants of Soviet spy novels. The article examines the mechanism of deconstructing genre strategies in a spy novel that generate a masculine model of the world where both variants fail to solve the mystery of the heroes, only becoming a basis for producing myths about them. In the second case, we study features, characterizing the representation of the "female" perspective on the image of the hero in the context of the declared author’s myth, which is determined in the “Reference” and “Epilogue”. We also reveal the trend of remythologization, whose function is implemented by the biographical narrative, forming the “female” perspective on the hero. The features of the biographical narrative reveal themselves at the level of the structure, determining a particular way of modeling flashbacks in the novel, thus compensating for the anti-psychological attitudes characteristic of the genre model of spy novels. A biographical narrative becomes a way of rehabilitating the protagonist’s image, revealing the nature of his “legend”.