| Summary: | Since the second half of the 20th century. the analysis of the structural and artistic components of
a work increasingly falls into the circle of scientific interests of literary critics. Among the functionally
saturated text-creating components of the work, the mask related to such concepts as plot and genre (plot-
creating and genre-creating functions), semantics of the text, mythopoetics, etc., is extremely important.
Such universals as "man", "other", "foreigner", "mask" are necessary attributes of the semantic space of
the artistic text, since these categories organize the text (perform a text-creating function).
In the article, the author considers the mask as a key semantic axis in the works of K.
Trukhanovsky. The writer resorts to mythologizing and endowing the mask with magical properties in the
novel. Mythological and literary traditions are superimposed, as a result of which the author creates
a complex model of the novel. K. Trukhanovsky immerses the main character in the world of masks,
forcing him to travel through the labyrinth of both his own soul and the whimsical world of the City into
which he falls.
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