The article attempts to consider the originality of the style of the modern Dagestani novelist Gazimagomed Galbatsov on the material of the epistolary genre: in “Letters to the next world” to the classics of Avar literature of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries and “To himself”, reflecting the creative quest of the author. The structural and comparative research methods, as well as the method of intertextual analysis of the text, make it possible to identify the elements of the author’s pastiche of the literary style of the addressees.