OBJECTS OF INANIMATE NATURE AS A COMPOSITIONAL BASIS OF ANTAGONISM IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL BY J. G. FOWLES “THE COLLECTOR”

Abstract

The article discusses the rethinking of the role of objects of inanimate nature and the world of things in the work of John Fowles – an outstanding representative of postmodernism. The analysis of images of inanimate nature is carried out through the prism of characteristic features of postmodern literature, as well as on the basis of some events from the life of the author of the novel. The images of the two heroes of the novel are considered in their compositional opposition on the basis of their commonality in the space of the postmodern novel. Among the objects of inanimate nature that provide the relationship of antagonism, the article analyzes the image of a butterfly and the metaphor of a butterfly, collecting as a process of depersonalization, a photograph of a person in opposition to a living person and a human personality, interior items in The Clegg house, the closed space of the basement and the open space of the inner world of Miranda.