The metaphors of "growing" in N.V. Gogol's short story "The portrait" and I.A. Goncharov's novel "The ravine"

The author carries out a comparative reading of Hoffman's novel "The Devil's Elixirs", Gogol's short story "The Portrait" and also Goncharov's novel "The Ravine". The general plan of these masterpieces includes the problems of art and temptation, verbal and visual representation and the metaphorical set of growing. In the course of the brief analysis of these aspects a special model of semiotisation of the objects and their names is going to be revealed, according to which the detail or the attribute (growing), being a fact of another order (poetic construct), becomes more than a sociographic element.