ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE IMAGES IN THE LITERARY WORKS BY VASYL YEROSHENKO

Abstract

The article deals with the origins of language images in the literary prosaic texts of the Esperanto and Japanese writer, Ukrainian by birth, Vasyl Yeroshenko. The most typical for his works language mega images of Person and Nature were analyzed. It was pointed out that the structure of the first image consisted of two language images: an Adult Person and a Child Person, which were realized in the concrete texts with the help of certain micro images: an old wise man, a father, mother; a son, daughter, child, brother, sister and others. Images of parents, and especially of children (sister Kate, a girl Khinoko, a little unknown girl), are accompanied by the motive of social inequality which is also connected with the motive of the colonial dependence. The macro image of Nature consists of language images of geographical and celestial objects, plants, animals, and birds. The author is attracted by the wild, boundless and unspoiled by the civilization space – a forest, river, sea, tree, the sun, sky, Tundra, mountains etc, as in the limited space of the city a person feels lonely very often. The Marco image of Nature is represented by the language micro images of animals and birds that became the symbols of the best qualities: a tiger represents strength, courage, and independence, an eagle – courage, endurance, a passion for highness, and love of freedom (in both types). In the works by V. Yeroshenko there are antiwar motives that originate from the understanding of war as something antihuman and directed against nature. It was found out that the origins of the author’s expressive means came from the specific features of his individual style, particular characteristics of a language persona that were formed by the knowledge of the native and foreign languages and cultures, religious philosophical and aesthetic values of the West and East.