Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1081-1088 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82 Transformation of Corporal Communication between Pilot and Machine in Russian Literature of the Early 20th Century Tatiana A. Zagidulina* Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafyev 89 A. Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia Received 06.02.2016, received in revised form 15.03.2016, accepted 28.04.2016 The research is devoted to the problem of transformation in corporal communication between pilot and machine in Russian literature of the 1910-20s. <...> The purpose of this research is to compare conceptual anthropomorphous and technical metaphors of classical and non-classical poetics. <...> The author researches the development of two myths: the future-oriented, futuristic myth, where the human merges with the machine and assimilates with the mechanism; and the past-oriented myth where the assimilation of the machine to a living creature comes to the fore. <...> The second myth is relevant for classic literature (A. Blok, A. Kuprin, L. Andreev and others). <...> This myth perfectly fi ts the pre-Soviet, Christian worldview, where soul is more important than mind and Christian images of the space structure (sacred top – sublunar bottom). <...> The futuristic myth created by V. Mayakovsky, V. Khodasevich, V. Kamensky and others, is aimed at desacralization of heaven, highlighting the idea of merge of human and machine and even the idea of replacing human with the machine. <...> Therefore, one may speak of two mythologies as two different worldviews, which appear in literature and culture in such an important and crucial period for Russian culture as the 1910-1920-s. <...> Among the new achievements there was fl ying, the opportunity to rise into the sky riding a machine heavier than air. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: zagi9@rambler.ru # 1081 # research studies the transformation of ideas of the corporal relations of the aviator and the fl ying machine, as well as the changes in presenting the sky in classical and non-classical artistic paradigms. <...> The texts selected for analysis are works by A. Kuprin, L. Andreev, V. Mayakovsky, I. Severyanin, A. Blok. <...> Transformation of Corporal Communication between Pilot and Machine in Russian Literature. <...> Those are sketch “Bird Men” by A. Kuprin (1917), poems “Give motor” (1925) and “Don’t Your Shoulder Blades Itch?” by V. Mayakovsky, and story “Flight” by Leonid Andreev (1913). <...> A. Kuprin <...>