MUSICAL DISCOURSE OF I.S. TURGENEV'S PROSE

The article analyzes the musical motives, as well as the mentions of musical instruments in Turgenev's prose. The purpose of this work is a cultural analysis of the context of «musical fragments» of I.S. Tur-genev's prose. Musical preferences are the subject of lively disputes of Turgenev's characters. Musical instruments are used as metaphorical figures in Turgenev’s work which indicates the «musicality» of the writer's thinking.