Contextual coherence of the comparisons in D.S. Merezhkovsky’s novel

Resumen

The authors analyze the contextual comparison coherence in Merezhkovsky‟s novel „Antichrist, Peter and Alexis‟ via the semantic-stylistic method and the contextual analysis method. As a result, com-parisons in Merezhkovsky‟s novel serve to highlight the most signifi-cant issues and motifs, to expand artistic time and space, and to trans-mit the worldview of the characters and the narrator. In conclusion, textual interactions of comparisons are implemented at different levels of text division: at the level of sentences, paragraph, chapter, book and the novels in general. They also create semantic coherence of the novel with other parts of the trilogy.