symbolists

In the article the poetic features of Z. Gippius’s prose are investigated. The special attention is given to the function of smell in the writer’s short stories of the 1890s, as means of the plot development, of revealing characters’ inner world, their complexity, the discrepancy of their nature, the history of their relations, their philosophy of life and love.

In the article different implementations of thoughts about Gogol in the novel The Raven written by O. Forsch are considered. The part of the chapter from The Raven excluded from the canonical text is analyzed as well. The issue is raised why this part did not appear in the final version of the novel.

The author continues to investigate those artistic devices of Turgenev as a novel-writer which acquire special significance for the authors of symbolic novels. The subject of analysis is the technique of ‘partial duality’ and the ‘paired’ scenes, as well as the folklore allusions in Turgenev’s novel Smoke: their features and functions.