Semiotics of reflection in the Alitet Nemtushkin’s story “The Road to the Lower World”

Abstract

The story by Evenki writer Alitet Nemtushkin "The Road to the Lower World", which touches on urgent ethnic-social and cultural-psychological issues, has been undeservedly deprived of the attention of researchers, although it has the prospect of revealing a number of significant artistic techniques. The purpose of this article is to consider the semiotics of reflection in the story as a universal sign system containing a variety of semantic units. As a result of the research, such meanings of the semiotics of reflection as the epistemological function, the motif of afterlife, the motif of duality, the artistic reflection of reality and the manifestation of the author's image were revealed.