ANTITHESIS AS A PRINCIPLE OF CREATING LANDSCAPE IMAGES IN L. BORODIN’S STORY “THE YEAR OF THE MIRACLE AND THE SORROW”

Abstract

The article examines L. Borodin’s story “The Year of the Miracle and the Sorrow” from the point of view of landscape images. The aim of the study is to identify the internal contrast of nature images in the work and to determine the functions of the antithesis technique in it. The method of complex analysis of the work is used, which allows considering the author’s conceptual ideas and means of their artistic expression in unity and interrelation. The paper proves the conclusions about the fundamental importance of antithesis in the images of natural realities on the pages of the story. The writer creates internally contrasting images, which allows him to most properly realise the complex range of experiences of the character-narrator, to express the idea of the contradictory essence of nature itself, which is the source of both real and mythological beginnings. It also gives an opportunity to deepen the meaning of the title of the work, reflecting the author’s idea of the unity of wonder and sadness in the narrator’s soul.