Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University508010.18287/2542-0445-2017-23-1.2-101-105Unknown«PERHAPS HOWEVER, TO BE TRUTHFUL, HE WOULD HAVE FOUND A NORMAL FATE?»: SPECIFIC CHARACTER OF INTERPRETATION OF A CLASSIC WRITER`S IMAGE IN THE TEXTS OF RUSSIAN AUTHORSMaslenkovaN. A.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097SergeevaE. N.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097Samara National Research University02012017231.21011051007201710072017Copyright © 2017, Maslenkova N.A., Sergeeva E.N.2017<p>The article studies works in the alternate history genre. The plotof these books is the fork of fate of classic-authors who avoiddeath and as the result historic occasions move in new directions.Researchers prove that the figure of the author in the nationalculture is inextricably connected with discourse of power thattestifies about the stereotype relevance of the central part of literature.</p>альтернативная история, образ писателя-классика, литературоцентричность российской культуры.alternate history, image of classic writer, literaturecenteredness of the Russian culture.[1. Lotman Yu.M. Smert’ kak problema siuzheta [Death as the problem of plot]. In: Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics. Vol. XX; Literary Tradition and Practice in Russian Culture: Papers from an International Conference on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Yu.M. Lotman. Amsterdam; Rodopi, 1993. P. 1–15 [in Russian].][2. Shtern B. Vtoroe iiulia chetvertogo goda. Noveishie materialy k biografii Antona P. Chekhova [The second of July of the fourth year. The latest materials for the biography of Anton P. Chekhov]. Novosibirsk: Svin’in i synov’ia, 2005 [in Russian].][3. Tolstaya T. Siuzhet [Plot]. In: Tolstaya T. Liubish’ – ne liubish’ [Love, not love]. M.: Oniks, Olma-Press, 1997. P. 258–269 [in Russian].][4. Lazarchuk A., Uspenski M. Posmotri v glaza chudovishch [Look into the eyes of monsters]. M.: Amfora, 2005 [in Russian].][5. Bradbury R. O skitan’iakh vechnykh i o Zemle [On eternal wanderings and on Earth]. In: Bradbury R. O skitan’iakh vechnykh i o Zemle [On eternal wanderings and on Earth]. M..: Pravda, 1987 [in Russian].][6. Marias F. Bozhestvennyi svet [Divine light]. M.: Machaon, 2004 [in Russian].][7. Holland T. Tainaia istoriia lorda Bairona, vampira [The secret history of Lord Byron, the vampire]. M.: EKSMO, 2005 [in Russian].]