Destruction of Church Language by Leo Tolstoy in the “Resurrection” Novel

The paper examines, firstly, the monologue narrative word in Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection”, which exposes the church language and ritual; and secondly, a strong balancing of thesis through discursive images. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the increased interest in the first topic is timeless due to the belittling of the significance of the second, so this study is not aimed at entering into a discussion about the ideological attitudes of the writer, but rather at identifying in this regard some recurring details, motifs and metaphorical constructions generated by the text of the novel. Thus, the aim of the paper is to study the poetic elements of certain fragments of the text of Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection”, which are created contrary to the ideological interpretation and debunking of the language of the church. Regarding the method of research: for analysis, on the one hand, narrative techniques are highlighted, with the help of which religious rites and language in the “Resurrection” are ridiculed, and on the other, methods of linguapoetic analysis are used. The main conclusions of the study are that while the words, objects, elements and acts of action of Easter praise and communion are exposed in narration, the true spiritual resurrection is presented with the help of natural and sound motifs and the implementation of metaphors at the level of the author’s idiostylistics. As a result of this analysis, it can be argued that in Tolstoy’s novel, closed institutions of power are replaced by a genuine road to enlightenment. Thus, the writer exposes the petrified words of the rite, frees the language from external violence and opens up new perspectives for it, which becomes the “Resurrection”.