Travestying the ecclesiastical canon and hagiographical pattern in Andrey Platonov’s “Gorod gradov”

Abstract

The paper scrutinizes the peculiarities of travestying some elements of the “Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete” and patterns of the Lives of Saints in Andrey Platonov’s “Gorod Gradov”. An attempt is made at disclosing the creative strategies chosen and implemented by the writer.

Keywords

• травестирование
• церковные жанры
• агиографический трафарет
• художественный текст
• проза Платонова
• творческие стратегии