The main female characters in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories are mostly “little women” – residents of communal areas and outcasts of society – those who are now called marginal. In general, the writer presents a reflection on the complexity of the spiritual path a woman goes through in search of her individual self and identity in the social and cultural space. Ulitskaya reveals to the readers her profiles of women of the Soviet era who are placed in a pseudoegalitarian gender system, and that is why they fight for identity, feeling that Soviet society is not their native and natural sphere of existence.
In this article we defined the aim of bringing closer Daniil Andreyev's personality which refers to the statements of the writer's self-identification. In conclusion, Andreyev is a mystical writer who thought about himself as a messenger, visionary, dualist, poet-magician and words seeker. Moreover, Andreyev considered himself as a creator who does not invent things, but only in the language of poetry describes the otherworldly. The mystical was not only present in his works, but also amounted to a component of his personality. Its foundations were reconstructed on a deep Orthodox faith influenced by the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov, the poetry of Alexander Blok, the visions of Alexander Kovalensky as well as his individual mystical experience.
Victor Pelevin’s The Life of Insects is an original modification of the novel asa genre in postmodern literature. The writer uses parody when he reduces the main characters to the level of insects. He combines realism and fantasy in a crooked, grotesque mirror. Ambiguous characters open up in fable-like situations and unmask not only the socially-determined people of Russia of the end of 20th century, but also universal patterns of human consciousness. Pelevin locates the world of people in the microcosmos of insects, thus foreshortening the perspective and changing the perception. This is an allegory of the very meaning of human existence.