Rhythmic organisation of A. P. Chekhov's prose

The article is devoted to the specificity of rhythm in A. P. Chekhov's prose works: “Death of an Official”, “Lady with a Dog”, “Dushechka” and the novella “Steppe” were used as material. In the course of the study we analyzed syntactic constructions. The analyzed texts have specific features of the rhythm of prose, characterized by semantic content, rhythmic and syntactic peculiarities of the characters' speech, structure and uniformity of syntactic units, and often contrasting meanings of phrase fragments. In the theoretical part of the work were applied general scientific methods - analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, system analysis, generalization; typological and descriptive methods. In the practical part of the study we applied the method of solid sampling from four selected works. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the identification of rhythmic structures characteristic of A. P. Chekhov's prose. P. Chekhov's prose rhythmic features, the close relationship between the rhythm of the narrative and the themes, episodes, speech characteristics of the characters. As a result: a) the speech of the author and characters, the development of the plot and the rhythmic organization of the text are inextricably linked in the artistic unity of the work; b) the most productive in the prose of A. P. Chekhov is the rhythm of the narrative; b) the most productive rhythmic means in Chekhov's prose is syntactic parallelism, based on the coincidence of the composition and order of sentence members in adjacent constructions or syntagmas; c) the rhythmic development of plot repetitions is often connected with the movement of the characters' speech; d) especially common in Chekhov's narrative are constructions with the conjunction “but”, which create a contrast between the character's spiritual life and the external circumstances of his existence, his behavior.

detail, motif, repetition, subtext, composition, rhythm, rhythmic organisation, parallelism, syntax, syntactic construction