COLOR PICTURE OF THE WORLD IN THE STORY “THE GENTILE FROM SAN FRANCISCO” BY I.A. BUNIN

Abstract

The article analyzes the color characteristics of the picture of the world represented in the literary text. In the structure of the lexical-semantic field of color presented in the literary text, coloratives based on the functions they perform are combined into the following contrasting groups (oppositions): color designations presented in the story “before death” vs “after the death of the gentleman”; color designations describing the “appearance of the gentleman” vs “the surrounding world.” The author traces the dynamics of color shades in the spacetime continuum of the plot. The analysis showed that in the story, the color concept is represented using a variety of lexemes with the meaning of colors and shades, and also grows with non-color values. Coloratives are used to recreate the portrait of the hero and the surrounding world, as well as to express the author’s position.