Fiction of V.Ya. Iretskiy of the 1920– 1930s in the literary context

The article deals with the analysis of the functioning of the elements of the fantastic in the works of the half-remembered prose writer of Russia and the Russian émigré V.Ya Iretskiy. There is defined the artistic originality of the fiction of the émigré, its connection with the prose of A.R. Belyaev, M.A. Bulgakov, E.I. Zamyatin, A.N. Tolstoy and other contemporaries and with the symbolic texts of the European literature.