EMOTIVE MESSAGES IN THE CONTENT STRUCTURE OF CHARACTERS OF B. PILNYAK’S NOVEL “THE VOLGA FALLS INTO THE CASPIAN SEA”

Abstract

Emotive space is an important structural and content category for reading a literary text. The relevance of the undertaken research lies in turning to the methodology of analyzing the emotive content of a literary text, revealing the depth and meaning of the experiences of the heroes of the work, which are represented by a system of lexical means. The subject of the study is the ways of expressing emotiveness in B. Pilnyak’s novel. The research is based on methods of semantic and linguistic-stylistic analysis, description of linguistic units, systematization and generalization. The conclusions substantiate that the system of lexical means, in particular, objectify the emotive space of the hero, which is demonstrated by the example of the analysis of the image of Edgar Laszlo. The materials of the article can find practical application in university courses on philological and linguistic analysis of text, stylistics, and the history of Russian literature of the first third of the twentieth century. The conclusions substantiate that in the depiction of the hero’s emotive space, fragmentary emotive meanings predominate, and the single phrasal meanings present tend to repeat themselves and, therefore, reach the level of fragmentary or general textual ones. Emotive meanings are functional and interpretive-characterological in orientation and are objectified in the text by expanded metaphors, displacement of subject-object relations in the narrative and syntactic constructions.