THE LITERARY VERSIONS OF THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON IN THE NOVELS "NO WAY OUT" BY N. S. LESKOV AND "THE PRECIPICE" BY I. A. GONCHAROV

The materials of this article are part of the research of poetic texts of different authors with the purpose of identifying the typical phenomena in Russian classical literature in their genesis and typological relation. Apart from the mentioned literary works, in the context of the given problem the novel of F. M. Dostoevsky The Humiliated and Insulted is considered as one of the transitory variants of the transformed traditional biblical story.