Part 1 Mnemotechnics and simulacra. Part 2 Intertextuality and dialogism: defining textuality literature made from literature - writing as continuation, writing as rejoinder, writing and re-writing intertextuality and the constitution of meaning - Bley's Petersburg and other texts concepts of the dialogic. Part 3 Syncretism and carnivalization: boundary transgression and mixing - the stylistic of Dostoevsky, Bely, and Mayakovsky Bakhtin's carnivalesque utopia the carnivalesque mode of writing - Dostoevsky's counter-festivals. Part 4 Memory and imitatio: the ambivalence of classical literature - Pushkin and the Russian culture of memory intertextuality as an act of memory - Pushkin's transposition of Horace the past as deferral - the culturosophy of the acmeists an unfinalizable dialogue with culture - Mandelstam and Akhmatova as memory-writers. Part 5 Cryptogrammar and doubling: a cryptoprogrammic paperchase - Dostoevsky's A faint heart myth or parody - the play of the letter in Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading the doppleganger as a simulacrum - Gogol, Dostoevsky and Nabokov splitting and doubling - anagrammatical play in Vladimir Kazakov's Mistake of the Living. Part 6 Decomposition/recomposition.