Ambivalence of the Line in the Reader’s Perception (about One Linguistic and Poetic Fact in “Eugene Onegin”)

The article examines the principle of variability of addressing, implemented on the basis of playing out language confl ict and combining diff erent types of meanings competing in the reader’s perception. The ambivalent use of a pronoun in the text of Pushkin’s novel becomes a linguopoetic fact. The conclusion is drawn that the fact under study represents an important semantic milestone of the novel and is present in it in an end-to-end way. The analyzed fragment of the fi fth chapter of “Eugene Onegin” is interpreted in the perspective of the reader’s perception. One of the characteristic features of Pushkin’s addressing is the prediction of its opposite positions: these are types of reader’s image, which are modeled based on contrasting readings of meaning. The content of a phrase is such a multidimensional one, in which one layer of understanding already makes it possible to grasp the integrity of meaning, but other layers reveal it in a new way. Playing with such a multilayered perception and the possible diversity of the addressee A.S. Pushkin models the types of the reader’s image, each of which has a meaning that is not excluded by the context of the novel. The riddle left by Pushkin is a message to the reader, a dialogue with him and a manifestation of the convergence of the poet’s thinking. As a research perspective, the task of a special study of the grammatical ambivalence of verse is outlined. It is shown that this technique is also found in other authors, increasingly increasing in the time perspective and the change of literary eras.