TRANSFORM, ANAPHRASE OR VERBAL ANAGRAM? ABOUT ONE FORM OF ARTISTIC STATEMENT IN A. KONDRATOV, G. SAPGIR AND OTHERS

The article deals with the original form of artistic expression, which received diff erent names from diff erent researchers: “transform”, “anaphrase” and “verbal anagram”. The genesis of the phenomenon is traced, its most prominent representatives in the history of world literature and in the latest Russian poetry are named: A. Kondratov, G. Sapgir, E. Mnatsakanova, A. Monastyrsky, S. Biryukov; typical examples of anaphrasia in the work of these and a number of other authors are given. M. Epshtein, L. Zubova, T. Bonch- Osmolovskaya, A. Kondratov’s views on anaphrasis and transform are briefl y presented. 
It is shown that at the end of the twentieth century. anaphrase/transform is literally in the air, attracting the attention of authors of the most diverse creative orientation. 
Rare and unpublished sources, including archival ones, have been introduced into scientifi c circulation.