THE MEANS OF EXPRESSING THE COMIC IN THE STORY BY BOLESLAV PRUS “KŁOPOTY REDAKTORA.”

Abstract

The article is devoted to the linguistic analysis of one of the early humorous stories by Boleslav Prus “Kłopoty redaktora” and to the study of the linguistic means used by the author to express the comic. In Russian literary studies, the writer’s early work is practically not considered, although it was with his first stories that the future celebrity honed his literary skills, and it was in them that Prus’s unique talent as a humorist manifested itself. Prus’s humor has been written about repeatedly. The main aspects of the writer’s style include: wit, joke, humor, black humor, irony, parody, satire, caricature, grotesque and pure nonsense. However, the research is focused on the linguistic aspect itself – specific linguistic means that allow the author to achieve a comic effect. Therefore, the purpose of the work is a linguistic (lexical-semantic, stylistic and syntactic) analysis of one of the early humorous stories by Boleslav Prus and the identification of linguistic means for comic expression. The research material was the story “Kłopoty redaktora” (“Editor’s Difficulties”), first published in 1875 in the humorous and satirical weekly “Kolce”.