The role of fairy tale motifs in the children's book by A.S.Byatt

The article examines the phenomenon of processing and borrowing fairy tales and images, which is significant for modern literature, and also analyzes various methods of processing borrowed elements and their functions in the novel of the modern English writer A.S. Byatt "Children's Book". The author of the novel revises the tales of C. Perrault, G.H. Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, E.T.A. Hoffman, and also uses the motives of the works of J. Barry, K. Graham, L. Carroll, R. Kipling. It is emphasized that most often the writer uses such processing techniques as allusions and reminiscences, which allows A.S. Byatt to create new, unique characters based on the already known ones.