Visual lexical and syntactic means in artistic space of "Mudreshkin's son" chronicle novel by A. M. Amur-Sanan

The article examines the lexical and syntactic means in the artistic space of the chronicle novel "Mudreshkin's Son", written in Russian in 1925 by the founder of modern Kalmyk literature A.M. Amur-Sanan. The autobiographical novel recreates a panorama of Kalmyk reality in the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries by showing the material and spiritual life, the behavior of representatives of different strata of traditional Kalmyk society, a change in the habitual way of life and habits of people in the course of social and political changes (revolution, civil war, the establishment of Soviet power). The means of the Russian language served as a fertile material for the writer to propagate a new life, to familiarize the Kalmyks with the ongoing changes. Expressive and pictorial means of vocabulary (synonyms, antonyms, lexical repetitions) and syntax (rows of homogeneous members, parcellations, rhetorical questions, rhetorical exclamations, nominative sentences, question-and-answer constructions, etc.) create an emotional background of a literary text, affecting the cognitive and the emotional sphere of the reader.