On the choice of expressive means in Bunin’s short story “The Saints”

In modern science the problem touched by the author is rather topical but not studied enough. In the presented article this problem is examined in the structure of the language composition based on the story of A. I. Bunin "The Saints". This research is aimed to answer the questions from what person the narrative is presented, how the images of the author and the narrator are connected and how the verbal numbers, taking part in the language structure, are singled out. The analysis has shown that there are written works without an author as an author is himself the organizing principle, that turns a text into a single and complete composition. Thematic similarity of works does not determine their stylistic and substantive uniformity. You can find many such examples, but first, you should examine their structure using matched-stylistic analysis. The object of our study was the stories of Ivan Bunin "bonanza" and "Dreams". We were interested in the fact that initially these works were published under the common name "black earth" - they mean stylistic commonality. To prove this hypothesis we have helped the analysis of the works, which identified the following similarities. The thematical and stylistic proximity emerges in the images of the storytellers expressed in both texts the pronoun of the 1st person singular and the corresponding forms of verbs. Images of storytellers and in that and in another piece closer to the image of the author. Their speech is characterized by harmony and strict clarity that gives an idea about the narrators as a literary language speakers. Images of storytellers and in that and in another piece closer to the image of the author. Their speech is characterized by harmony and strict clarity that gives an idea about the narrators as a literary language speakers. This view confirms the use of visual techniques of storytelling (in this case adjectives, similes and metaphors), motivated by the perception of the character, that is, transmitting its impressions felt, seen or heard: When the clock hesitantly, just wondering struck eight, somewhere screamed loudly and slammed the door, and on the platform wailed a plaintive call (“The dream”). In both works is possible to distinguish the main narrator and the secondary, and that the latter is full of colloquial and dialectal units, which corresponds to the spoken varieties of the language inherent in these characters. On the syntactic level imaging such speeches contribute to short and relevant-sounding intonation syntagm, connecting and clarifying design, introductory words, lexical repetitions, handling, colloquial and dialect words and expressions: Structural-stylistic coincidences noticeable in the designation of time and place of the events: in early stories, find the indication of the location of events (green hilly fields ("Bonanza") - in the field it was cold, foggy ("Dreams"). About the time of the events in "the Golden bottom" says and using the direct meaning of the word (Fast falls the bluish dusk of a summer night), and using part (Bitter and fresh smell of birches, fun, is given under the spreading branches of rumble bells, birds are ringing sweetly in the green thickets... In "Dreams", about the time of the events - late autumn - said only a few details (I went on watery plush sofa and immediately fell asleep, tired by the heavy road under the rain and snow...). And in both stories mention the station, which in itself indicates the theme of travel. Images of the narrators are revealed above all in the words and expressions carrying evaluative meanings. For example, in "the Golden bottom" can be observed in the verbal sequence, given four times a duplicate token, "bad": I walk in the front... Oh, Yes, it's completely a flophouse. Dark and stuffy, the walls blackened by the smoke of tobacco that smokes former Baturin! [/b elder, Dron not left the manor to this day...; But it is here in this valley on all sides by closed hills, descending to a dry river bed Wargla, pale and lit the wrong month light! (Bonanza). Consequently, the comparative-stylistic analysis led to the identification of the thematic, stylistic and structural proximity of works that allows to understand the reason why the writer put them together into a unified whole.

language composition, the image of the author, the image of the narrator, the narrative, verbal numbers, comparative stylistic analysis, omniscience, unengagement, subjectivation, text, Bakhtin, 1st person narrative, 3rd person narrative

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