Intertextuality of a short novel «Svetlaia lichnost'» («The lightful personality») by I. Ilf and Y. Petrov

This article focuses on examination of intertextual links in I.Ilf’s and Y.Petrov’s story «A Noble Personality». It deals with the analysis of parodic references to the world’s literary classics and leitmotivs of I.Ilf’s and Y.Petrov’s literary works. It also considers dystopian traits of the poetics of «A Noble Personality».