Author’s Form of Pushkin’s Myth Manifestation in M. A. Bulgakov’s Prose and S. Dovlatov’s Narrative “Pushkin Hills”

The article examines Pushkin’s myth represented in M. Bulgakov’s prose and S. Dovlatov’s narrative “Pushkin Hills”. Both the writers seek to dispel the Soviet myth of a national poet and to affirm the aesthetic ideal of a creative personality. Ironic modus of Bulgakov’s and Dovlatov’s artistry determines the author’s form of Pushkin’s myth manifestation, which is similar for both the writers. The structure of Pushkin’s myth expands in the artistic world of the XX-century writers due to inclusion of new mythologemes determined by temporal context and the author’s perception of Pushkin’s image.