SEMANTIC PROJECTIONS OF THE IMAGE OF RUSSIA IN THE NOVEL BY B.A. PILNYAK “MACHINES AND WOLVES”

Abstract

The article examines the semantically capacious and multi-layered image of Russia and the methods of its lexical objectification in B.A. Pilnyak’s novel “Machines and Wolves.” The author focuses on the place and role of this image in the motif-figurative paradigm of the work, in structuring the spatio-temporal continuum of the author’s model of the world, which is the task of the study. From the standpoint of identifying the world-modeling potential of the image of Russia, its semantic and stylistic load and methods of disclosure are determined. Based on the dichotomy objectified by the title, which forms the basis of the novel’s concept, the author determines the principles of structuring the image of Russia. Based on the text of the novel, the main semantic plans and projections of the image of Russia are consistently identified and described, taking into account its cross-cutting nature and connection with other works of the writer, in particular, with the later “Kolomna” novel “The Volga Flows into the Caspian Sea.” The conclusions formulated in the conclusion of the study substantiate the role of the image of Russia in the poetics of B. Pilnyak’s novel “Machines and Wolves”.