AMPHIBOLE IN THE "WILD ANIMAL TALES" BY L. S. PETRUSHEVSKAYA
For the cycle "Wild animal tales" by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya a distinctive concept of demonian in accordance with which each character acts as both a representative of the animal and human worlds and none of these worlds are not primary in relation to another’s characteristic. This is reflected in the names of the characters which in most cases consist of biological species characteristics and human name (or nicknames). On the linguistic level, this concept of peace is manifested as a constant occurrence of deliberate ambiguity (amphibole) which involves a double interpretation of the hospitality of words, expressions, series, and texts in general. In the "Wild animal tales" amphibole can be implemented as simultaneous actualization of direct and metaphorical meaning of a word or expression, contextual rethinking of the word, actualization of connotative components of a play on the existing language ambiguity or the simple possibility of different interpretation and description of the same situation. For such ambiguous fragments the intensification of non-linear relationships between the semantic components of the text is quite characteristic. The ratio between the two worlds’s obeying the logic "Heraclites metaphors" (Osip Mandelstam), in which it is impossible to identify the subject and object mappings.