(vol 8) Leading pages 61-67

DOI: 10.61484/29538181-ss.8.23-61

Abstract. The article considers the creation of Wang Weilian, one of the modern Chinese writers, which was first translated into Russian in 2017. Our attention was drawn to his story «The other me», where the motive of a «doppelganger» was reflected, topics, which are traditional for Russian literature of the 19-th century, that of Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Western literature of Stevenson, Borges, etc.

Keywords: Chinese modern prose, personality dissociation, Yung, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Wang Weilian.