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The article deals with two kind of problems - the specification and differences betweenintertextuality defined by Kristeva and concept of dialogue defined by Bakhtin, on the one hand,and the presence of these key categories of the contemporary literary criticism in the story writtenby Boris Lavrenyov The Forty-First, on the other hand. The research refers also to the linksbetween the theory of Kristeva and the poetic of ornamental prose, and shows the key role ofparody in both of them. As the result the author comes to the conclusion that the story is beingconstructively divided into two parts, one of which has got an intertextual character and the otherone dialogical. Moreover, the first category is related to parody, and Bakhtin’s concept of dialogueto tragic nature.