Толстовский текст и интертекст в повести А. И. Солженицына «Раковый корпус»
Tolstoy’s Text and Intertextuality in Solzhenitsyn’s Novel “Cancer Ward”

Summary/Abstract: The present research paper is dedicated to the problem of differentiation between Tolstoy’s texts and intertextual elements in Solzhenitsyn’s “Cancer Ward” by means of revealing the frequency and relevance of an appeal to the ideas of Tolstoy as well as Stalin, Gorky, Bacon, Pushkin, Herverg. In “Cancer Ward” Tolstoy’s ideas put forward in the story “What Men Live by”, in the short novel “Cossacks” and in the novels “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”, engender disputes between their characters about the meaning of life. These ideas serve as a rate scale of the events, set the highest religious and moral objectives, influence reflecting characters thus, leading some of them to the adoption of his ideas and spiritual resurrection whereas others to the search for their own answers to the question of being. In Solzhenitsyn’s short novel the title of Tolstoy’s story “What Men Live by” serves as an epigraph; the system of characters is built in accordance with the person’s integration into the dialogue with Tolstoy’s ideas and the cultural heritage.

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