Abstract: The subject of this study is the implementation of key poststructuralist and postmodernist ideas in Mark Z. Danielewski’s "House of Leaves" and Roberto Bolaño’s "2666". The object of the research is these novels themselves, examined as works of postmodern literature through the lens of philosophical concepts such as Michel Foucault’s discourse and genealogy, the “death of the author” as formulated by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction, the rhizome, desiring-machines, and the body without organs developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Barthes’ notion of myth as a secondary semiotic system, and Jean Baudrillard’s theory of the consumer society. The author closely analyzes such aspects of the topic as the novels’ multilayered discursive structures, the mechanisms by which philosophical concepts are implemented, and their influence on the reader’s perception. Particular attention is paid to the interrelation between philosophical ideas and literary technique, the formation of a new textual reality, and the critical rethinking of classical narrative forms. The methodological foundation of the research is based on poststructuralist and comparative approaches to textual analysis, previously tested by the author in the study of House of Leaves. The novelty of the research lies in its integrative approach to analyzing House of Leaves and 2666, which are here examined together for the first time through the lens of a broad range of poststructuralist concepts. The main conclusions of the study confirm the hypothesis that poststructuralist methods are productive for analyzing both texts and reveal the specific ways in which philosophical ideas are realized. The author’s particular contribution lies in the detailed description of the workings of such concepts as discourse, genealogy, the “death of the author,” deconstruction, desiring-machines, and the body without organs, as well as the substantiation of the idea that the texts of Danielewski and Bolaño function as open, rhizomatic, and decentralized structures. The study demonstrates that both novels enact a model of writing in which meaning is not fixed but exists in constant motion and transformation—an insight that enables a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of meaning production and disappearance in postmodern literature and contemporary culture as a whole.

Abstract: The object of research of this article is a novel by Mark Z. Danilevsky's "House of Leaves" in the context of Postmodernism. The subject of the study is the concept of a simulacrum, which appears in the novel "House of Leaves" as one of the funding components of the poetics of the work. The "House of Leaves" is considered from the position of postmodern sensitivity, in which Danilevsky deliberately blurs the boundaries between habitual space and hyperreality, real and unreal, fact and fiction. A similar effect is achieved through the simulacrum based on the novel – the short film "The Nevidson Film" – which was originally programmed by Danilevsky to expand into reality, to capture reality, that is, to limitless expansion of simulation through both material media (books) and the Internet. As a result of the proliferation of simulation within the work, the poetics of the novel text itself undergoes mutation, where genre mixing occurs, and mutually subordinate relations are established for the participants of author-reader communication due to the features of novel poetics. The text based on the simulacrum is absorbed by the simulation and eventually becomes a simulacrum due to the continuous formation and spread of the simulation. As a result, the language environment turns into a means of control, manipulation, subordination, both of the author and the recipient: the totality of simulation replaces reality and includes the perceiving consciousness in its own boundless becoming.

Abstract: The object of research in this article is a novel by Mark Z. Danilevsky's "House of Leaves" in the context of postmodernism. The subject of the study was the mythical element of the novel (ash Yggdrasil). This element is considered as a hermeneutic key to the interpretation of the novel by Mark Z. Danilevsky's "House of Leaves". Also, the subject of the study is space and time in the novel, inextricably linked with the mythical component of the works. As a result, a detailed analysis of the mythical component of the "House of Leaves" is given in the context of the poetics of postmodernism, as well as some characteristics of the space-time of the novel. Hermeneutical interpretation is performed using the poem "Yggdrasil", located on the last page of the novel, as a symbolic key. The grapheme "Yggdrasil" and the symbolism of the components of the limit tree in their relation to the exemplification of the structure of the novel as a whole are analyzed. The mechanism of the inclusion of the work in the context of world literature is described through the actualization of semantic and etymological inclusions of mythical motifs about the creation of the world in the text of the "House of Leaves". The analysis of intertextual references to Egyptian mythology through the symbols of the ouroboros and the solar disk is given. The plot of the path of the sun god Ra in the "House of Leaves" is analyzed. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that we have analyzed the symbolic detail in the novel: the hidden symbolism of the "Ash Tree" as the tree of the limit; elements of biblical mythology; the image of the inverted world; labyrinth, stairs. The interpretation of the work as a model of the world is considered, where the ambiguity of mythological and spatio-temporal layers, based on the inevitable symbolic references-threads, function as an instrument of appeal to the cultural unconscious. The connection of the mythologies of Egypt, Tibet, the texts of the "Upanishads" and "Kabbalah", as well as the artistic and literary intertext with the "House of Leaves" is analyzed. As a result of this hermeneutic analysis, an ironic postmodern interpretation of the work of Mark Z. is described. Danilevsky through the symbolism of emptiness (unselfishness).

Abstract: In this article, the object of research is a novel by Mark Z. Danilevsky's "House of Leaves" in the context of postmodernism. The subject of the study is the phenomenon of the chronotope in the novel by Mark Z. Danilevsky's "House of Leaves". Special attention is paid to the cultural and historical analysis of the postmodern context and the belonging of Roman Danilevsky to it. A general cross-section of the state of the socio-cultural environment from the moment of publication of the work to the present is given. The analysis of the publications of foreign researchers who have already addressed this topic, and the analysis of their views on the spatio-temporal features of Roman Danilevsky is carried out. The characteristic features of the theories of postmodernism that took shape in the postmodern era in their relationship with the novel "The House of Leaves" are singled out and described separately. By means of a comparative analysis addressed to foreign studies in the field of philosophy, as well as to literary and critical works devoted to the "House of Leaves", an indirect conclusion about the categories of space-time in the novel is formulated. The properties of the "House of Leaves" narrative related to these categories are described: layering, intersection and interaction of various narrative levels of the novel. Based on the study of the features of the chronotope "House of Leaves", the dominants are established, according to which the novel can be attributed to the current of postmodernism. The scientific novelty lies in the description of the author's narrative strategy, which led to the creation of the chronotope of the original type. The question of the future of novels based on the chronotope of the type described in the article continues to be debatable.