Abstract
The purpose of the article is to identify the artistic specifics of the titles in the «Sun of the Dead» by I.S. Shmelev. The key lexemes «the sun» and «the dead», combined in the title complex, correlate with the image of the distorted Crimean existence of the early 1920s, act as the leitmotives of the narrative, carry an apocalyptic eschatology. The literary context of the interpretation of the solar motif as a marker of morality (Homer, Dante, I. Babel, A. Shiryaevets, etc.) is given. The result of the research shows the correlation of the title of the story with the literary context, the solar mythology of life creation and mortality, expresses the idea of the duality of being, combines the plot-autonomous chapters into a complete work.
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