THE PECULIARITY IN THE USE OF PROVERBSIN «THE RED WHEEL», AN EPIC NOVEL BY A.I. SOLZHENITSYN(Knot i «August 1914» and Knot ii «October 1916»)

The article deals with phraseological units in the epic novel of A.I. Solzhenitsyn «The Red Wheel». They are analysed according to their role in the contents, composition and image structure of the text. Proverbs and sayings acting as components of the national culture are one of the dominants in the expression of author’s values and his esthetical and ideological position. Phraseology is used as a figure of speech characterizing a person, and also as a special mean of artistic and compositional text organization enabling to create the effect of folk’s regard on the events. Reflecting the most important values for the Russian culture, the phraseological units in «The Red Wheel» are used not only as a kind of summary to the chapter but also reveal the author’s position, united with peoples’ outlook

idioms, proverbs, sayings, «The Red Wheel», world-image