"The final book" in the context of cultural memory (F.M. Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov", B.L. Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago")
The article deals with the phenomenon of the final book (f.b.), which is investigated in the context of cultural memory. The genre syncretism of the f.b. expresses the desire of artists to create the “text of texts”, which accumulates the answers to all the aspects of the personal life and being. The poetics ofthe f.b. by Dostoevsky and Pasternak correlates with the genre intention of the European literature of the Middle ages and with the idea of creating a “Secular Holy Book”.