Apophatic of a fatherland in Valery Dudarev's poem “Petushki - Kokhma, further nowhere”

Subject of the article : apophatic of a literary work. The article examines how the apophatic of culture, the problem of hierotopy is implemented through a literary work. Object of the article : a poem of the contemporary poet V. Dudarev “Petushki - Kokhma, Further Nowhere”, consisting of thirteen short stories. Many writers openly refer to well-known literary plots, which make their works easily recognizable. However, in modern poetry there are examples of latent organic assimilation of eternal images and plots. Undoubtedly, Dudarev refers to V. Erofeev’s poem “Moscow - Petushki”, but enters into a creative dialogue-dispute with the classic, which manifests itself at the super-textual level and is associated with the search for a fatherland, home. Research methodology : a holistic analysis of literary texts in an ontohermeneutic key with the use of a semantic research method. Results :Valery Dudarev’s poem is based on the plot of a metaphysical journey and the main character finding a small homeland, a fatherland, which is apophatic in nature, and this requires additional culturological commentary. Drawing parallels with the Russian fairy tale, turning to its otherworldly paradigm seems productive, since Russian folklore is an inexhaustible apophatic source in Russian culture.