Abstract
The article examines the problems of laughable word functioning in N. V. Gogol’s epistolary heritage. The paper establishes the importance of Bakhtin’s conception of a laughable word for understanding the nature of comical in the writer’s creative work. The author shows that in N. V. Gogol’s letters the carnival spheres of speech - familiar forms, obscenities, mild rebuke, verbal comical - are the key ones. The special laughing energy of certain stories of Gogol’s letters is associated with the writer’s carnival world perception and his aspiration to identify laughing elements in everyday life.
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