Specifics of realization of the category "the absurd" in contemporary Russian literature

The purpose of the article is to analyze the specifics of the explication of the phenomenon of absurdity in modern Russian literature. The article’s innovative character is accounted for by the experimental nature of absurdism and the overall significance of the phenomenon of the absurd in literature and culture in general, and consists in the possibilities to use the potential of diverse communication within the multiplicity of the Humanities (philosophy, history, psychology). The results obtained showed the expediency of understanding the ways the absurd functions in Russian literature - as a transitive phenomenon, interpreted as any way out of logic, and the reverse, «inaudible» meaning of the utterance.