In the article the process of remediation, which is the reproduction of the contents of the cultural memory by means of other media, sign systems, genres or artistic devices, is regarded as a translation process, according to the views of R.O. Jakobson on its aspects. This makes it possible to present remediation as a three-level phenomenon responsible for the creation of secondary texts, in an invariant form embodying the concept of the original work. The material of this study was the novel in verse “Dead Souls” by N.V. Gogol. This novel is seen as a bearer of cultural memory, which thanks to remediation has received a large number of new incarnations.