About the book: year / Lev Losev: “Most of all I love “The Little Blue Modest Handkerchief” (1982). I remember how I started reading in the first time and almost immediately switched to reading aloud - it was impossible to refuse the tongue, the larynx in such a holiday ... And I wrote to the author: “I began to read, and I really liked the tone and the extraordinary mastery of the language ... exubOrance of images, colors, characteristic expressions, which you. intoxicating and captivating. A lot of unnecessary things, disproportionate, but the verve and tone are amazing." This article develops an important thesis about the inseparability of the literary process from the general intellectual process, primarily from the development of philosophical and philological thought. New knowledge about the nature of language and thinking opens up new perspectives for the artist’s imagination, and along the way, new rules of the game are created. In the mid-twentieth century, the doctrine of dialogism spread; the hierarchy of “alien words” in Aleshkovsky became pure poetry. “Handkerchief” mixes existential despair and everyday farce, and the result of the reaction is an explosion. In a similar way, in the tragic Prologue to “Poem without a Hero,” the “alien word” of the funniest Russian comedy appears: ... And since I didn’t have enough paper, I’m writing on your draft. And now someone else’s word appears…