ЖАНРОВЫЙ СИНКРЕТИЗМ ?ЗАГАДОЧНЫХ СКАЗОК? Л.С. ПЕТРУШЕВСКОЙ

The author of the article considers her task to define genre originality of the cycle of “Mysterious tales” by L. S. Petrushevskaya from the position of displaying here of the contamination of mystery and tale’s typological signs. Genre syncretism is identified by cognitive model of the tale, which takes typical additional characteristics. Being extended metaphors per se with “reversed” meanings, these intriguing fairy-tale stories find clear signs of traditional mystery genre.