Анотація:
The article is devoted to the research of the controversial novel’s poetics of the modern prose writer Anatoly Korolev, the representative of the frontier aesthetics between realism and postmodernism. The author uses various discourses to interpret an absurdity in the novel «Byt Boschom» («To be Bosch»): narration about reality, text in text, metatext. The meaning of the discourses’ combination is represented in the article. Studying the absurdity in the novel allows to see existential problems revealed in this writing.