Historical and cultural heritage of A. Kabakov's "Moscow Tales"

the article deals with the issues of implication of linguistic and historical-cultural commenting as approaches to text analysis that help to better understand its meaning and context, create a more complete and multi-layered understanding of the text, its meaning and impact on the reader, highlights the versatility of the problem and, consequently, the need for its more in-depth study. The author conducts a linguistic and historical-cultural study of A. Kabakov's fairy tale "Project Babylon", gives detailed explanations of individual precedent units, studies the literary fairy tale taking into account the postmodern stage of literature development, the plot of which is concentrated around characters – functions. The methodology of the research is based on the analysis of scientific publications of domestic and foreign authors devoted to this issue; also the methods of analysis of linguistic and historical context are used to identify the evolution of plot structures of a literary fairy tale. The results of the scientific work are presented in the form of recommendations for conducting linguistic and historical-cultural commenting in the field of literary text analysis.

linguistic commentary, historical and cultural commentary, literary text, analysis of literary text, irony, grotesque