Onyms as representatives of the gospel code of literary texts by A. P. Platonov

The work is devoted to the analysis of the onyms included in the Gospel code of A. Platonov’s literary texts. The relevance of the research is due to the absence of works revealing the peculiarities of using onyms as representatives of the Gospel code of Platonov’s literary texts. Continuous sampling, linguistic observation and description, textual analysis, and analysis of the cultural and historical background methods were used in the research. In the writer’s worldview, social, religious, philosophical and mythological components are closely intertwined, and the writer’s attitude to religion and God is ambiguous. This resulted in the unique implementation of the gospel code in Platonov’s artistic texts, which are represented by biblionyms (the writer uses the names of Orthodox holidays, icons, excerpts from prayers as the titles of his works) and chrononyms (the names of Orthodox holidays). With the help of onyms representing the gospel code, the author sacralizes the names of political figures. Allusions to the Old and New Testaments arise in A. Platonov’s literary texts: the author refers to parables and legends that are traditional in a believer’s representation of the world, but religious subjects in the writer’s works are reinterpreted, due to the existing attitude towards religion in society.