Abstract:

Abstract Venedict Vasilyevich Yerofeyev is one of the leading writers of Russian postmodern literature. Having learnt how to write and read when he’s just five years old, he’s obtained various information from history to politics, music to art, philosophy to religion, and for him Bible is the book which he cannot live without. Yerofeyev who knows the Bible by heart has always been proud of it. The Bible which has an important place in his life also reflected to his works. One can face with quotes from the Bible both in his diaries and works. From Moscow to Petushki which was written by the end of 1969 and brought the real fame to the writer is the strikest example of this. The work which is about a physical and spiritual journey in company with alcohol of the autobiographic hero who carries the same name Venichka with the writer is named as “Alcoholic Russian Bible” because of using statements referring to the Bible sometimes in it’s original language literary and sometimes by the way of allusion, metaphor and periphrase. Being used for Venichka to express plenty of feelings and things, Biblical phrases reflect to the whole work as an effective factor of postmodern narrative which aims at constructing an impressive and allusive narration. Making use of Bible’s holiness writer tries to mythcise himself and his hero. In this context, finding out the quotes from the Bible which forms an important stratum of the work and their position in the narration are aimed to be revealed in the study.

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