METAPHOR "BOOK – FOOD" AND ITS TRANSFORMATION IN CREATIVE AND EPISTOLARY HERITAGE OF A. S. PUSHKIN, P. A. VYAZEMSKII AND V. A. ZHUKOVSKII
The author considers the fate of the metaphor “book – food” in the lyric and epistolary heritage of Pushkin's circle poets. Sometimes, identifying the book as the food for the mind and soul, Arzamas society members see in crude in style and absurd in content texts of their opponent D. I. Khvostov, the “underside” of Old Russian metaphor about the book, ironically call his works “laxative” or “manure” and perfect their harmonic style by means of the satires and epigrams devoted to Khvostov's nonsense.