ABOUT SOME FEATURES OF METAPHOR IN YE.I. ZAMYATIN’S PROSE IN THE TWENTIES

Abstract

The article touches upon the idea of analysing the language of Ye.I. Zamyatin's prose of the 20s in comparison with the method of neorealism and stylistic synthetic preferences that are defined theoretically and realised in practice by the author in his literary and critical works as well as in fiction (in the articles About synthethism (1922), New Russian Prose (1923) and others, the stories of the twenties, the novel We). Neorealism is understood as the category of the author's comprehension of the history of development of literary and cultural process in general, as the stage of this development which implies actual witticism, psychological character of realism and semantic and stylistic transcendentalism of symbolism. Synthethism is treated as the artistic form of neorealism. Synthetic aesthetics of Ye.I. Zamyatin's prose is revealed in extended metaphors of Zamyatin's works, they are characterized by the aspiration for marginal assymetry of their sign form, being increasingly reduced, and by metaphorical contents, being totally profound, complicated by semantic clashes - abstract projections of syntagmatic relations between lexems of the prose text of the author. This syntagmatic character is provided with occasional collocations of common Russian vocabulary which recursively transform in the metaphors of Ye.I. Zamyatin's text extracts of different length. So, the article presents one of numerous aspects of linguistic analysis of Zamyatin's text, partial so far. In general, Zamyatin’s writing manner is defined as perceptually complicated due to the author's language and mental uniquiness which is expressed in the intellectual artistic value of the text. The article briefly presents terminological toolkit that includes such linguistic and stylistic concepts as language of work of fiction , language of fiction, poetic language, expressive langiage .