The poetics of G. Markosyan-Kasper involves several cultural layers at once: firstly, the author's "Armenian world", secondly, the Russian language, in which all the novels are written, and finally, European, including Russian culture, to which the writer constantly refers. Exploring the intertextual connections of Markosyan-Kasper’s novels with works of world literature, we will discover a palimpsest of intertextuality, the layers of which most often work only for the "initiated", those familiar with certain local plots. The work of G. Markosyan-Kasper, saturated with national-cultural concepts and archetypes that concentrate the experience of the nation, nevertheless developed and absorbed, on the one hand, echoes of the first wave of Russian postmodernist literature, on the other hand, imbued with pathos, allusions and reminiscences of world classical literature, expanded the idea of "own" and "foreign", shifting the emphasis from the national to the extra-national. The present article gives a general picture of the quoted European authors in the novel "Penelope" by G. Markosyan-Kasper, separately identifying and commenting on Shakespearean allusions in the context of the "Shakespearean text" of Russian literature
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