“Consciousness drama” of August Strindberg and “Brain-play” of Andrey Belyj. On problem of typological connections

The article is concerned with typological connections of the problems and poetics in A. Strindberg’s plays and A. Bely’s novel “Petersburg”. Two sense bearing points are revealed in the article: A God-seeking issue as the main problem field of the play “On the Way to Damascus”, which is represented in the character’s consciousness, and a “brain-play” issue of Andrey Bely as a realization of the game of consciousness and genre potential of the modernist novel.