Pushkin is an unsurpassed master of literary jokes, practical jokes, puns, epigrams, and parodies. Wordplay, all kinds of hoaxes were the environment in which the literary tastes of the Pushkin era were formed. "And now a whole system of parody is being formed, from which the friendly literary society (Arzamas. - V. D.), which played quite a significant role in the formation of Russian literature " (Marchenko N. Signs of the sweet Old Times. Morals and life of the Pushkin era, Moscow, 2000, p. 248). Pushkin's literary workshop offers a wide variety of techniques and means for creating the comic: from subtle irony, parody and auto-parody to sword-slashing political satire (see: Gasparov Jr., Smirin V. M. "Eugene Onegin" and "The House in Kolomna": parody and auto-parody in Pushkin // Tynyanov collection: The Second Tynyanov Readings. Riga, 1986, pp. 254-264). Pushkin's talent as a satirist was especially clearly manifested in numerous epigrams and parodies, in fairy tales, in the "History of the village of Goryukhin". Important style-forming means are humor, satire, and irony in the novel "Eugene Onegin". The dominant place of irony in the stylistic unity of "Eugene Onegin" has already attracted the attention of researchers (see: Lotman Yu. M. In the School of the Poetic word. Pushkin. Lermontov. Gogol, Moscow, 1988, p. 64). To create the effect of irony, the poet uses all sorts of inconsistencies, inconsistencies. So, describing Lensky, Pushkin emphasizes the discrepancy between the poet's young age and his feigned disappointment: "He sang the faded color of life at almost the age of eighteen." page 7 In the characterization of the "shrewd" plagiarist Monsieur Triquet ("The poet is modest, though great") the concessional conjunction "at least" speaks of the vain pretensions of this dilettante, of his pomposity. Martin Zadeki's fortune-telling book, the interpreter of dreams, which is popular among county young ladies, is grandiosely named: "this is a deep creation." ... Read more