Интермедиальные аспекты создания образов в поэтике романов Бернхарда Шлинка Женщина на лестнице и Ольга

The relevance of the chosen topic is determined by the opportunity of con-sidering the issue of intermediality that has a debatable nature according to Russian and foreign researchers. The aim of this paper is to identify the principles of intermedi-ality on the basis of a comprehensive philological analysis of two novels by B. Schlink: The woman on the stairs (2014) and Olga (2018), paying particular attention to the practical aspects of how ecphrasis is realized in the poetics of the above-mentioned works. The research tasks were accomplished based on critical analyses of the concepts formulated by well-known domestic and foreign researchers. As a result of the under-taken study, it was established that the key to the understanding of the ideological and artistic content of the works by B. Schlink are pictorial and photographic examples of ecphrasis having both plot-forming and characterological functions. Moreover, ethical and aesthetic conceptions contained in all works by B. Schlink were analyzed.