Kарикатура: объект, его чувственное восприятие и художественное воплощение (на материале романа Ивана Гончарова Обрыв)

The article shows the understanding by Ivan Goncharov of caricature in literature. In his novel The Precipice the writer created two images, directly marking them as caricatures. The comic effect in creation of images of Polina Kritsky and Akim Openkin is formed by means of using several tools of embodying: the portrait details of static and dynamic character, the speech characteristic and the estimations of the heroine (hero) by the storyteller and other characters. The caricature features are attached to comic effect by consecutive exaggeration of the features peculiar to certain type of a person.