Gra językowa w twórczości Ludmiły Pietruszewskiej
Language-games in the works of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the works of one of the most significant writers of modern literature, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya. The author of the article draws attention to the family roots of the writer, who is the granddaughter of the Russian linguist Nikolai Feofanovich Yakovlev. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya has a special attitude towards language as a material that can be freely formed. The writer has created her own alphabet called “nikolaits’a” for digital correspondence with relatives. The article also provides examples of many literary texts in which Lyudmila Petrushevskaya manifests her desire for language experimentation. This is especially vividly observed in her fairy tales and poems. The cycle of linguistic fairy tales titled Pus’ki byatye, created according to the rules of the “zaum language”, is focused on the tradition of the Russian avant-garde, especially the work of the Oberiuts. As demonsrated in the text of the article, the writer uses various strategies of language-games, starting with language experiments of linguistic and syntactic means: neologisms, macaronisms, solecisms, hyperboles, euphemisms, archaisms, colloquial, and onomatopoeic words, as well as alogisms and violations of the communicative function of the language.

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