SOUNDSPHERE IN “CAVALRY” BY I.E. BABEL

Abstract

The article reveals the importance of the components of the sound world in the most famous novel “Cavalry” by I. Babel. The sound sphere in the novel of the writer is a special language, the signs of which are built into a system of various markers that allow to understand Babel’s poetics as a game. The sound world consists of discrete and non-discrete sounds, human and non-human sounds, positive and negative sounds, sounds forming oppositions “somebody’s” – “the auther’s”, “wild” – “cultural”, etc. The possibility of rating marking is complicated by the author’s attitude to carnivalization and playing often in the strategy of spoiling everything a professional liar – trickster. All this allows to understand the mythopoetic features of Babel’s work, as well as the works of other writers of the so-called Odessa school, as a neo-mythological text.