The Main Features of Semantic Sрасе "Reminiscences" in the Short Stories by Tatiana Tolstaya
The main feature of the artistic time in the short stories by Tatiana Tolstaya is the existence in them of the semantic area reminiscences. It is the particular realization of such a feature of author's artistic time, when it's individualization takes place. The semantic area reminiscences in the short stories by Tatiana Tolstaya possesses some linguistic features. The principal feature is the fragility, unsteadity, illusority of reminiscences. This feature realizes itself with the help of certain linguistic means: lexical units with the comparative semantics, verbs and adjectives which contain the semantics of residuality and election. The other feature is the permanent invisible link of the past and the future. It is created with the help of the image of narrator-mediator, who speaks about the past with a certain interlocutor, and the special lexical units, which serve for expression of the link between the past and the present. These lexical units represent two temporal blocks-then and now.