SEMIOTICS AS A TOOL OF ANALYSIS: I. S. TURGENEV’S SHORT STORY “MUMU”.

This article should be considered in connection with the materials proposed for publication in the 1st (28) issue of this publication for 2017 and in the 2 nd (39) for 2019: «Semiotics as a tool for analyzing a literary text: experience of practical application» and «Semiotics as a tool for analysis: «Light breathing» by I. A. Bunin», respectively. This time, the author chose the textbook work of I. S. Turgenev, the story «Mumu», as the subject of the analysis. The difficulty in solving this problem, on the one hand, lies in the need to overcome the established stereotypes in relation to this work, and on the other, in the need to take into account the intertextual connections and relations within the writer’s work and the idea of the uniqueness of his philosophy of nature.