THE METAPHORICS OF THE WIND CARRIES DEAD LEAVES AWAY BY EKATERINA MANOYLO

The article considers the key semantic classes of words that build up the metaphorics of Ekaterina Manoylo’s novel The Wind Carries Dead Leaves Away: these are the classes of words with the semantic component ‘death’; sources of objectification, i. e. household items and clothes, toys, food and disches, including spoiled ones; sources of zoomorphic, ornithological, entomological, etc. metaphors, i. e. wild and domestic animals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects and arthropods; embodiments in the description of interiors, cities and cars; words belonging to the semantic fields cinema and theatre, and finally, intertextual sources of tropes. In this paper the metaphorics of the novel is understood as a system of comparative tropes of a fiction text, so that different types of similes and metaphors are the object of analysis. Semantic classes are evolving in the text relying on semantic repetition, thus, one can trace the list of key metahoprical images of the novel. Linguistic metaphors and similes are discussed in the context of other constituents of the fiction such as the plot, fiction details, etc. The article is to show the role of key semantic classes of sources of metaphor in expressing the author’s intention and author’s evalua tions in the novel.