Symbolism of colour in A.S. Byatt's story "A stone woman"

The article is a study of coloristic symbolism in the story А Stone Woman (Little Black Book of Stories) by the contemporary British writer A.S.Byatt. Special attention is given to such important motifs of the text as the two opposed colours of grey ("hopeless immobility") and red ("boiling and burning"). It is proved that not only their symbolic meaning and psychophysical influence, but also various shades of their transitivity and associative bonds with different objects and phenomena of material and spiritual worlds are significant for the author. The article also investigates the correlation between colour motifs and mythopoetical images and analyses the role of colour in developing the main characters and philosophical problematics of the story.