Linguistic Features of Landscape Sketches in the Fiction of A. P. Gaidar (Based on the Stories "R. V. S.", "Blue Cup" and the Story "Timur and his team")

   The article is devoted to the overview analysis of landscape sketches in the fiction of A. P. Gaidar (on the example of the novels "Timur and his team", "Blue Cup" and the story "R. V. S."). In general, the language of the writer's fiction has not been studied enough. At the moment, an active study of the updated lexicon of Gaidar's works, certain aspects of his language is underway. But the author's idiolect has not been fully studied.

   The relevance of the study is due to the fact that at the moment there is no analysis of landscape sketches in Gaidar's works.

   The purpose of the work is an overview analysis of linguistic means of expression, with the help of which descriptions of nature are created in several works. This allows us to identify the groundwork for further linguistic analysis of this aspect. In the course of the study, methods of observation, continuous sampling, contextual analysis, and systematization of language analysis were used. The analysis gives an idea of the landscape sketches in Gaidar's prose, their composition. They are created using epithets, metaphors, personifications and syntactic parallelism. It is revealed that the description of nature allows the writer to compare its state with the course of the narrative. In the story "R. V. S.", the tranquility of nature is contrasted with the turbulent, turbulent life in the wake of the Civil War. In the story "Timur and his team" descriptions of nature are used less often, they embody the quiet life of the country village in which the action takes place. In the "Blue Cup" the author uses detailed descriptions of natural landscapes. The analysis of landscape sketches allows us to conclude that the image of nature is inextricably linked with the main action and helps the writer to solve an artistic problem.

1. Kotov M. I. Gajdar na vojne [Gaidar at war]. Moscow, Molodaya gvardiya Publ., 1984. 319 p.

2. Epstein M. N. Sistema pejzazhnyh obrazov v russkoj poezii [The system of landscape images in Russian poetry]. Moscow, 1990. 304 p.

3. Kochergina I. V., Klimas I. S. [Osobennosti upotrebleniya voennoj leksiki v hudozhestvennoj proze A. P. Gajdara]. Voprosy zhurnalistiki, pedagogiki, yazykoznaniya Features of the use of military vocabulary in the fiction of A. P. Gaidar = Questions of Journalism, Pedagogy, Linguistics, 2020, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 62–629.

4. Linguistic Encyclopedic dictionary [Lingvisticheskij enciklopedicheskij slovar']; ed. by V. N. Yartseva. Moscow, Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. 685 p.

5. Golovina E. V. Funkcii pejzazhnyh opisanij v hudozhestvennom proizvedenii [Functions of landscape descriptions in a work of art]. Molodoj uchenyj = Young Scientist, 2017, no. 3, pp. 649–651.

6. Tolova G. N. Pejzazh v literature i iskusstve [Landscape in literature and art]. Perm, 1993. 52 p.

7. Malysheva O. K. Semantika emocional'nosti v hudozhestvennom prostranstve rasskaza A. P. Gajdara "Golubaya chashka" [Semantics of emotionality in the artistic space of A. P. Gaidar's story "The Blue Cup"]. Molodoj uchenyj = Young Scientist, 2015, no. 22. 1 (101. 1), pp. 202–204.

8. Gaidar T. A. Gajdar Arkadij. Sobranie sochinenij [Gaidar Arkady. Collected works]; ed. by ed. T. A. Gaidar. Moscow, Pravda Publ., 1986, vol. II, pp. 359–361.

9. Kassil L. [Gaidar]. Gajdar Arkadij. Sobranie sochinenij [Gaidar Arkady. Collected works]. Moscow, Children's literature Publ., 1964, vol. 1, pp. 5–35 (In Russ.).

10. Gaidar A. P. Polnoe sobranie sochinenij [Complete works]. Moscow, Detgiz Publ., 1959. Vol. 1–4.

11. Mineralova G., Osnovina G. A., Rybakov N. I. et al. [Appeal to Gaidar as a sip from a pure spring (about A. P. Gaidar's story "The Blue Cup")]. Tvorchestvo Arkadiya Gajdara [The work of Arkady Gaidar]. Moscow, Litera Publ., 2006, pp. 77–86 (In Russ.).