Symbolism of Color Combinations in the Novel "White Guard" by М. Bulgakov
Direct and associative color terms in the novel "White Guard" perform a characterizing function, while one color can be perceived differently depending on the situation and the person being characterized. Each color also plays the role of a symbol, and their combination or disintegration reproduces the dynamics of events. In novel especially important role belongs to the three-color, which constitutes the imperial standard and is present in the novel in encrypted form. The change in the position of the city leads to the transformation of each of the three colors and, ultimately, to the disintegration of the symbol. With the entry of the Petliura troops, the state symbol, the yellow-blue flag, whose components are present in the text of the novel, both explicitly and in association, comes to replace the hidden tricolor.