LEXICAL BORROWINGS AS A TOOL FOR RECONSTRUCTING REALITY IN THE WORK OF THE NEW V. PELEVIN

Abstract

The article touches upon one of the pressing problems at the intersection of literary studies and linguistics – the presence of borrowings in a literary text. An appeal to the works of V. Pelevin allows us to elucidate the characteristics and functional role of Latinisms, Anglicisms and Graecisms in postmodern poetics. This research is based on the material of the novels ‘The Invincible Sun’ (2020) and ‘Journey to Eleusis’ (2023), which have been little studied in scientific literature. It has been determined that Pelevin’s borrowings are characterised by intertextuality; often the postmodernist resorts to pastiche and sarcasm. The meaning-generating and modelling functions of borrowings are revealed: since in the novels the author refers to the history of Ancient Rome, Latinisms are used to recreate the context. Anglicisms act as a marker of the capitalist way of thinking and allow to characterise the speaker.