Abstract: The subject of the study is the peculiarities of the use of words denoting light and its shades in the works of V. G. Rasputin.
The paper uses methods of structural-semiotic analysis using elements of cultural analysis, and also uses the method of interpreting an individual text and analyzing individual stylistic elements.
The methodological basis consists of the works of scientists on the study of the poetics of the work, and the artistic world of V. G. Rasputin’s prose.
The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time the features of light designations in the works of V. G. Rasputin have been identified and described.
Shades of color associated with lighting are an important part of the artistic world. In the prose of V. G. Rasputin, this is light, sparks, brilliance, radiance, sparkling and flickering. Light in the works of V. G. Rasputin is carried by the sun, moon, stars, and electric light. The absence of light becomes symbolic and embodies doom, loss. Light is used in landscapes that contrast with the state of the character. In portrait descriptions, light details of appearance mark positive characters. In descriptions of the details of the material world, light emphasizes the beauty of works of human labor. Shine, sparkle, flicker and radiance emphasize the beauty of nature, while the stylistic feature of landscape descriptions and objects in the works of V. G. Rasputin is the simultaneous combination of several light shades when describing pictures of nature, as well as their use in a metaphorical meaning to describe states of the characters. Brilliance in the portrait of characters, and radiance in the description of the details of the material world, are associated with the author’s negative assessment of the character or situation.

Keywords: Details of the material world, Portrait and landscape, Individual author’s meaning of light shades, Light painting in literature, Light and its shades, Artistic world of the work, Writer’s style, Poetics of the works, Short novels and stories, Creativity of V. G. Rasputin

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