The article is devoted to evolution of the dual-world’s boundary in the time-space continuum of the late-Soviet and post-Soviet ballads. Using as examples the ballads "Test by the Mirror" (Y. Kuznetsov) and "Ballads" (B. Kenzheyev), united by presence of the eternal plot of a meeting with the Devil, the article reveals a tendency of levelling / elimination of the boundary between the worlds. The role of "magic" objects and magical animals, as mediators of dual worlds, decreases within the process of the boundaries blurring and convergence of the two worlds. Chronotopic universals are combined with the objects and images of modern everyday life, resulting in an expansion / inversion of their meanings. Aliens from the other world freely penetrate the house: and, the "house" topos loses its semantics of a protective space. The literary parallels show an inextricable connection of the modern ballad with the genre canon / with tradition of the Silver Age, and also become a code to multi-level reading of the ballads. The intertext helps to reveal new meanings of mythological images and details of the chronotope, to define hidden collisions of the plot and to determine the type of ballad heroes. Within the open borders, the catastrophic changes in two worlds indicate a chaos of the world order. The mental crisis of a modern hero (the ballad action takes place on the other side - either in a state of sleep or in a borderline state) is caused by the total loneliness of a person, who finds himself alone with a hostile world / lack of a sense of security in an unprotected space of a house. In a state of transgression, the hero comes into a conflict with the changed world, i.e. into a conflict with himself. The image of the Other (hero's trait / second self) becomes an expression of the internal spiritual conflict / contradictions of the surrounding world. The technique of irony used in the ballads of the late 20th - early 21st centuries is a way of "defamiliarizing" the reality and an opportunity to distance the author and his heroes from the disharmony of the universe.
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