Kniga posvyashchena probleme vzaimosvyazey russkoy literatury s kul"turami Vostoka (arabskoy, iranskoy, tadzhikskoy, mongol"skoy i dr.). V tsentre vnimaniya avtora - osobennosti khudozhestvennoy retseptsii russkimi pisatelyami (A.Pushkin, N.Tikhonov, L.Leonov, V.Khlebnikov, K. Bal"mont, I. Bunin, Yu. Tynyanov, A. Kusikov i dr.) realiy musul"manskogo mira i traditsiy islamskoy kul"tury. Aktsent delaetsya na interpretatsii russkimi pisatelyami idey i obrazov kul"tury Islama. Rassmatrivayutsya razlichnye formy retseptsii: stilizatsiya, podrazhanie, zaimstvovanie, vvedenie v tekst syuzhetov, mikrosyuzhetov, motivov, tsitat, allyuziy, reministsentsiy, mifologem, otnosyashchikhsya k raznym vostochnym kul"turam. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno transformatsii v russkoy literature stilistiki i obraznoy sistemy Korana. Otdel"nye glavy posvyashcheny vospriyatiyu v russkoy literatury inonatsional"nogo kharaktera, kotoryy stanovitsya predmetom izucheniya imagologii - odnogo iz otvetvleniy sovremennoy komparativistiki. Adresovana filologam, prepodavatelyam literatury v shkole i vuze, a takzhe vsem interesuyushchimsya problemoy mezhkul"turnogo literaturnogo vzaimodeystviya.