Yeugeny Babushkin is a modern novelist, journalist, and playwright, positioning himself as a "storyteller" and "proletarian writer". His stories and plays are published in the magazines October and Modern Drama , on the website of the project Snob . In 2017 and 2020, two books by E. Babushkin were published: The Bible of the Poor and Drunken Birds, Merry Wolves . In terms of content, the books partially duplicate each other, while the recomposition of stories and the combination of some of them into a single story with a framework plot form new semantic connotations. The process of cyclization of small prose by E. Babushkin from publication to publication, on the one hand, is due to the media agenda, on the other hand, reflects the evolution of his writing role. The subject of the analysis in this article is the process of formation of the author's "fairy-tale" style, reflected in the mechanisms of cyclization of small prose. We found out that Babushkin's prose is characterized by a complex system of parallelisms that operates at all levels of the text: phonetic, lexical, syntactic, figurative, and compositional. When republishing small prose, Babushkin composes previously independent texts into cycles and stories in such a way that the system of parallelisms becomes more complex and forms new levels of meaning that are allusively connected with the media context. As a result, the compositional complexity of the narrative form transforms the semantics of its elements and affects the perception of realistic narratives as fairy-tale. The contrast of genre and motional allusions to the fairy tale and the content, saturated with realistic details of provincial life, allows Babushkin to realize in his fiction two literary roles - "storyteller" and "proletarian writer".
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