Repetitions-reflections in the story by A. I. Kuprin "Granatovyi Braslet" ("Garnet Bracelet") (to the 155th anniversary of the birth)

This article is devoted to the study of the semantics of the word love in the story by A. I. Kuprin "Granatovyi Braslet" ("Garnet Bracelet"). The purpose of the work is to consider the role of repetitions-reflections in the compositional and speech structure of the story "Garnet Bracelet". The linguostylistic method of analysis allows us to correlate the speech fabric of the work and its deep meanings. The main object of our attention is the system of meanings of the word love. The study of co- and oppositions of different meanings of the lexeme leads to the realization that there are two poles in the story – "exceptional" and "true" love, and all other variants of meanings, as a rule, with a negative connotation, are a reflection of "exceptional" love in a crooked mirror. Zheltkov’s "exceptional" (= unearthly) love is gradually freed from the notes of irony and mockery that degrade it throughout the story and is elevated to the rank of high tragedy in the "prose poem" that takes shape in the mind of Princess Vera when she listens to Beethoven’s sonata. "Real" (= earthly) love is presented in the family relations of the Sheins as a natural continuation of "passionate love" that did not fade away after marriage, although it changed its forms of expression.