Semantic oppositions and their markers in the structure of the short story “Two letters” by A. Lyubchenko

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the internal structure of the short story “Two letters” by A. Lyubchenko. It was proved that the author smoothly combines the dichotomic model with the trinomial connections. It was clarified that both the types of the opposition are determined in the title of the work. That’s why the meanings of the main semantic oppositions of the short story (sender / addressee / pseudoaddressee (“real reader”), proximity / non-proximity to revolutionary events, forward / backward, light / dark, life / death, past / future, yours / others, romanticism / realism) are given by means of the interpretation of the title lexeme “letter”. The role of the associative retrospection and the artistic detail (colour or sound one) in the short story “Two letters” was characterized.