Abstract

The study reveals specific ways of expressing the passage of time in the story "Live and Remember" by Valentin Rasputin. The study is aimed at demonstrating how the development of the plot, the dialectic of relationships between memory and oblivion, as well as the fluctuations in the heroes’ memories – all create the image of a pendulum. The applied methodology involved a linguostylistic analysis of the text. The author identifies linguistic means that help the writer to draw images of a pendulum-person and a pendulum-object. Special attention is paid to syntactic constructions of different types used to convey the ambivalence of the characters’ body and mind. The image of a pendulum and the motive of pendulum movement create the feeling of the onward march of time and the oncoming final date.

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