THE USE OF FEMALE NAMES BY LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA ON THE MATERIAL OF THE NOVELS "SONECHKA" AND "MEDEA AND HER CHILDREN"

Statement of the problem. The paper is devoted to the study of the use of some female names by Lyudmila Ulitskaya on the material of the works "Sonechka" and "Medea and her children", because in the context of modern literature there are several factors of the choice of "female prose": the author is a woman, the main character is a woman. These issues are closely related to the lives of women, their special stylistic and semantic metaphors from the point of view of vocabulary, semantics and onomastics. Results. In this paper, the creativity of women writers is analyzed, the phenomenon of the use of the female names in the works of writers is described on the example of the selected works by Lyudmila Ulitskaya. This phenomenon has been studied by many linguists, historians and sociologists. The study addresses the issue of determining the possibilities of using some proper names as a source of reflection about real events and a means of linguistic and literary interpretation of the works of art. Conclusion. Analyzing the art works "Sonechka" and "Medea and her children", we could come to the conclusion that the writer draws a type of a modern woman with a rich inner and deep world, revealing an irresistible devotion to her family. Based on the conducted research, it can be argued that the writer uses female names to create a female art image. The name of the main character always plays the role of a sign-symbol that leads the reader to classical works, where usually all the heroines in the Russian literature, endowed with these names, have particular character traits.