Coloristic space of Boris Balter's story "Goodbye, boys!"

In the article on the material of Boris Balter’s story a significant fragment of the writer’s coloristic picture of the world was reconstructed: the color range that he used to visualize the most important text spaces was revealed, the color dominants were established, their functional potential was described, as well as Balter’s specifics of color painting; some parallels with K. Paustovsky’s color style of writing were established too.