Keyword: «synesthesia metaphorization»

The investigation of the synesthesia metaphor of L.N. Tolstoy on the material of his novels Semejnoe schast`e, Anna Karenina and Krejcerova sonata is presented in this article. The mentioned works belong to the mature period of the writer’s oeuvre with a well-defined idiostyle. The primary synesthesia is described as a transfer of a sign of one type of perception to another and the secondary one – as a transfer of a sign of one of perception type to psychological experiences, emotions and feelings of a character.