Keyword: «system of images»

Research of phraseological units functioning as a form of the author’s consciousness in fiction opens up new perspectives in the studies of artistic images. PUs in Zamyatin’s «Farewell from nowhere» express his system of characters and the main idea of human return to Christian values. The article analyses the peculiarities of cognitive approach to studying PUs that contribute to effectively considering internal mechanism of creating the lines of narration and the development of literary themes. The choice of PUs reflects the author’s outlook and his ability to describe the surrounding world by means of PUs semantics. This investigation of the novel language is justified because it helps to understand the author’s motives and dependence on his views.

The work of E. Zamyatin, one of the most famous neo-realist writers of the first third of the 20th century, naturally attracts great interest of literary critics. However, with an abundance of articles and monographs devoted to the writer's work, today there are still relatively few works exploring the influence of the traditions of Russian classical literature on the novel “We”. The scientific novelty and relevance of the presented article lies in the experience of a systematic analysis of the influence of ideas, themes, images, motives of several works of Russian classics of the 19th century on the novel “We”. It seems reasonable to compare the socio-philosophical problems, the figurative system, plot situations and compositional techniques in the novel by E. Zamyatin and in the works of N. Gogol, M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, F. Dostoevsky, N. Chernyshevsky, I. Turgenev. The topic considered in the article can provide additional material both for further study of Zamyatin's work and for the study of the literary process in the twentieth century. The main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in the preparation of university courses on the history of Russian literature of the twentieth century, in the development of special courses on the work of E. Zamyatin.