ТЕЛО КАК МЕТАФОРА : ВЫЧИСЛИТЕЛЬНО-СРАВНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ПОВЕСТИ ≪КОТЛОВАН≫ И РОМАНА ≪ЧЕВЕНГУР≫ : употребление слов, называющих части тела

Style is organic and living. Style can grow and change for an author. The analysis of style by computer can contributed to the discipline. Characters in Platonov's novels feel their bodies' existence too strongly. Many researchers refer to Platonov's distinctive attitude to the human body. For this study, words referring to body parts were selected from his works Chevengur and Foundation Pit, and analyzed using textual database. As the results showed, the relative frequency of words related to body parts used in Chevengur was lower than in Foundation Pit, though the word "body" itself was used with an unusually high frequency in Chevengur. Analyzing the usage of the words "neck" and "throat", which are container of the human soul in these works, demonstrates that Platonov's thinking about the body is mainly directed at the relationship between body and consciousness, body and soul - the ideal aspect of the human body rather than concrete body parts. Keeping in mind criticism by G. Z. Litvin-Molotov who read the first draft of Chevengur, one can suppose Platonov did not have any intention of writing about concrete "real" persons. Analysis of Foundation Pit shows a very high frequency in the use of the words "face", "mouth" and "eye". It demonstrates the characters have their faces i.e. the author has a visual image. It is also important to remember that in an early draft of Foundation Pit was meant to be a film script. The high frequency of the words "belly" and "trunk" in both works, and their association with these the word "communism" become clear, especially its symbolical metamorphosis in Foundation Pit. In addition, with regards to the change from the earlier draft to the final version of Foundation Pit, Platonov's principal in Foundation Pit was to express his idea by means of behavior and movement, not by lines and monologues. In the 1920s and 1930s, Platonov's style changed dramatically. It is possible that because he knew both film and play genres. It may have played some role in the change of his style. This genre can be a key to a further study on the prose of Platonov.