Abstract: The article is devoted to the story "the Oven" and PhD thesis "Pantomime in the education of the actor" by Russian writer, Director and researcher pantomime E. V. Kharitonov (1941-1981). Kharitonov was one of the first writers of the Soviet period, who made the Central theme of his work homosexual desire. Appeal to this problem did Kharitonov unprintable by the author and introduced in the broader context of the non-censored Soviet literature, the study of which is today an important issue both for literature and for philosophy,and cultural studies. The subject of the article is a gesture that arises from Kharitonov not only as themes but also as a specific means of expression (ellipsis) in order to retain in the text displaced "forbidden" content. Like, "two-dimensional" perception of the novel allows us to conclude that her perception is irrelevant to the usual procedures of interpretation of texts, based on mimesisThe study is based on analysis of the syntactic structures of the novel and interpreting the gesture using the methodology developed by J. Telecom based on the semiotics of C. S. Pierce.