Verses in B. Pasternaks small prose

In this article thespecificity of verses in B. Pasternaks small prose is considered in its dynamics. Works of 1915-1956 became the object of research. Theirstudying shows that the prose of the writer, both early and late, is abundant in verse devices, allowing to define it as the prose of a poet, but theset of verse devices in the prose discourse, the character of their introduction and function are exposed to considerable changes. One of the earliestworks, Appelesova cherta (1915), is characterized by total metaphorisation, giving some special characteristics and a particular rhythmicorganization to the plot. The text is so saturated with verse devices that it loses the dynamism peculiar to prose and the tendency to denouement,thus, the basic vagueness of the sense is formed connected with the romantic concept of life. But Detstvo Lyuvers (Childhood of Luvers)(1918) bears the traces of the authors work over style simplification: compact designs appear, the quantity of repetitions and tropes decreases.The subsequent works also show the tendency to clarity of the prose in modelling of verse devices, but not refusing them. So in VozdushnyePuti(Air Ways) a peculiar lyrical plot, vagueness of sense, absence of logic explanations of the event echoes the poetic form. The Povest(Story) is also focused on verse principles for by the initial plan of the author it was a part of a dilogy, including the novel in verses and a prose.The specificity of the Okhrannaya Gramota (Protection) (1931) is defined by lexical and grammar-syntactic repetitions, metrization and metaphorisationof the text. These works prove the search character of writers creativity, his aspiration to find a most effective combination of verseand prose elements. Searches of the writer are resolved in a sketch Lyudi Polozheniya (People of Situation) (1956). B. Pasternak totally refusesmetaphorisation of the text for precise verbalization, accuracy, factuality of statement, simplifies the grammar-syntactic designs, and reducesthe quantity of lexical repetitions. The metric thinking of the writer is preserved, as well as the metaphorical component does not disappearcompletely. The analysis of B. Pasternak's small prose allows to make following conclusions: the aspiration to simplicity and clearness ofstyle was permanent in the creative works of the writer; the set of verse devices, scope of their use, functionality changed, but he did not stopwriting verses; using verses in prose is connected with special, metaphorical thinking of the writer.

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