Abstract: the article deals with the issue of national and cultural identity in the modern novel by G. Yakhina "Zuleikha Opens the Eyes", which determined the receptions conflict in the context of regional, Russian and world literature; it shows that the perception of the novel in the situation of intercultural artistic communication reflects the state of the Russian literary-critical consciousness, not identifying the unity of the internal national and cultural contexts of the work with the external, ones as well as historical, literary, typological and intertextual contexts.