Ornithological images in the novel “Finches in armor” by Georgy Venus
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2024-77-3-242-247
Abstract
The image of a bird is one of the traditional images in world culture. For the texts of Russian and foreign literature, a bird is one of the most complex, polysemantic and semantically full images. The purpose of the article is to study the mythopoetic image of a bird. The article examines the system of ornithological images in the novel “Finches in Armor” by Georgy Venus, revealing the semantic content of the ornithological images found in the text. The title of the novel immediately sets a certain “ornithological” semantic vector. Finches in the novel turn out to be wearing greatcoats - these are young soldiers, for whom the world happens to be tragic, it collapses. The birds, mentioned by the author, at first glance appear in the text by chance, become part of the landscape, but the moments when they appear next to the characters of the work, accompanying them in reality and in their thoughts, create the impression of no accident; the frequency of their mention makes one think about their symbolic semantic meaning for the entire novel. The images of birds in the novel by Georgy Venus carry certain meanings that expand the figurative system of the novel, becoming messengers, their appearance in the work is associated with a premonition of trouble, which activates their mediator functions.
About the Author
T. Pirogova
Samara State Social-Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pirogova Tatiana Olegovna, graduate student
65/67 M. Gorky Str., Samara, 443099, Russian Federation
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Pirogova T. Ornithological images in the novel “Finches in armor” by Georgy Venus. Philology and Culture. 2024;(3):242-247. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2024-77-3-242-247
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