THE NOVEL "SKUTAREVSKY" AS THE CREATIVE LABORATORY OF THE "PYRAMID" BY L.M. LEONOV
Roman L.M. Leonov «Skutarevsky» is undoubtedly the forerunner and partly a draft for his latest novel «Pyramid». All the main characters of «Skutarevsky», when transferred to the «Pyramid», retained their plot functions, although they were already presented in a different philosophical light. The disgraced priest and the successful film director from «Pyramid» in «Skutarevsky» still form a single image of the protagonist. The same duality is demonstrated by the «herald of the new world» Zhenya, who in the «Pyramid» has turned into two different characters, albeit connected by the «creator-creation» relationship. In general, the desire of the system of characters in both novels to doubling, crushing demonstrates the difficult path along which the author’s comprehension of the change in the worldview guidelines of the Russian world went.