Pushkin's "The Prophet" in Early Prose of V. Nabokov and G. Gazdanov

Artistic interpretation of A. Pushkin's poem "Prophet" is researched in the article, cluster approach to the research of literary supertexts is realised. The novelty of the author's approach is that the material for analysis was not lyric poetry, which is characteristic of this technique, but the prose of Russian writers: early novels of V.Nabokov "Storm" and "The Word", G. Gazdanov "The Third Life", which are analysed as variations on the theme of Pushkin's "Prophet". In the course of the analysis it is convincingly proved that the structural core of the plot of these works constituted the main elements of the lyrical situation of Pushkin's source text: the state of the soul's emptiness of the hero, a meeting with the messenger of God; the illumination that shook the soul, and the wonderful transformation of all the senses and abilities of man; a person's awareness of his new mission. The purposes for recourse of the writers to the Pushkin's poem are explained, shown the method of making a reference to the primary source, revealed the structural parts of the lyrical plot of "The Prophet", that the authors use, differences are revealed (in particular, the role of the real-historical and domestic background in the stories was strengthened). Special attention in the article is paid to how the authors solve the problem of The Word. Noted, that the context of the Pushkin's poem denotes the theme of art, allows V. Nabokov and G. Gazdanov to show the mechanism of the birth of the artistic image, creating the work.