Conceptual content of the lexeme “life” in the author's language picture of the world (based on the novel “Village” by I.A. Bunin)

The article deals with the issue of the structuring of the author's language picture in the novel “Village” by I.A. Bunin. There is analyzed the concept “life” taking into consideration the conceptual structure of the language picture of the world as a complicated systematically organized structure uniting the concepts of different levels in its content and the anthropocentricity as its defining characteristics. The implementation of its content is directly connected with such universals as “man (personality)”, “space”, “time” and the modeling of the author's world picture and the characters and the ways of its lexical representation.