NOVELS BY YU HUA AND F.M. DOSTOEVSKY IN THE ASPECT OF CONTRASTIVE FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS

Abstract

The work shares a contrastive analysis of two iconic world literary texts – the novels “The Brothers Karamazov” by F.M. Dostoevsky in Russian and “Brothers” by Yu Hua in Chines. The researchers analyze historical, cultural and social contexts of the two novels. Thus it is possible to discover temporal and spatial links between the two authors and their texts, manifested in semantic and formal features. The influence of Russian literature on the development of Chinese literature, in particular the novel by F.M. Dostoevsky on Yu Hua has been confirmed. The researches show the closeness of their views, and therefore the verbal representation of the two writers: for both authors, the theme of death shows their focus on describing and revealing the painful internal (mental) processes of the heroes, their concern for each person to remember what is in him love for one’s neighbor lives. The novels “Brothers” and “The Brothers Karamazov” are the results of the transition from the old epoch to the new, social upheavals. Both writers are similar in their choice of means of depicting morbidity: the main characters have contradictory characters, they admire themselves and despise themselves.