A VERBAL PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AND METALINGUISTIC ACTIVITIES OF CHARACTERS (A STUDY IN THE WORKS BY ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN)
In Alexander Solzhenitsyn's essays and prose a special part is played by the concept of language. It is the Word that is a reflection of the author's ethical and aesthetical viewpoint. Solzhenitsyn's anxieties about impoverishment of the Russian language are still relevant - three decades after the Dictionary of the Russian Linguistic Extension was first published. The article deals with the linguistic introspection found both in the author's text and in the speech of the characters in The First Circle, which shows the inviolability of cultural values.