Metaphor as a linguocognitive mechanism of the development of fiction world picture

The article deals with the role of a cognitive metaphor in the development of an individual author’s world picture reflected in a fiction text. There are revealed the basic metaphoric models that are the representatives of the author’s world view in the novel “Aviator” by E.G. Vodolazkina. There are firstly described the donor spheres, the target spheres and the vectors of the association of the ontological, orientational, intertextual and synesthetic metaphors in the fiction discourse of E.G. Vodolazkin.