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In the article on the example of two works of modern Russian literature: the tale of
M. Kharitonov «Day in February» (1976) and the novel of V. Sharov «Return to Egypt» (2013) is
considered one of the strategies of modern literary process - updating images, motives and plots
of Russian classics. The Image of N. V. Gogol and his literary themes become a field of reflection
modern writers about the links between art and reality, the essence of creativity (Kharitonov);
and the field of play, the place where the phantasmagoric the plot of the poem «Dead souls», reveal
the mechanisms of the development of Russian history (Sharov).