Abstract
The article deals with the problem of the ‘unrooted man’, which is conceptual for modern transcultural literature in Russian. The authors put an analytical emphasis on the modern identification crisis of phenomena that are associated with the self-identity of writers who model a multi-ethnic world in their texts with biographical coordinates. The protagonist of this world (the author’s reflective alter ego) loses his ancestral roots due to historical migration of peoples in the 20th century. The article analyzes the mythological concepts of the sacred space of the alien hero, the motive of initiation through internal and/or external migration, the existentialоgemes and ontologemes of ‘embedding’ into another ethnic group, the semiotics of the collective world image based on the novels by Sana Valiulina “I’m not afraid of the Bluebeard” and Pyotr Aleshkovsky “The fish. History of one migration”. Researchers use the analytical principles of the transcultural approach as a studying strategy of the artistic world not only by polydomic and multilingual writers, but also by Russian authors who seek to present the Russian person’s vision of the Other, his alien (different) culture, ontology, but in the prism of a common history, including the historicity of existence (M. Heidegger).
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