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METAPHORS OF ANIMALS IN HEINRICH BOLL’S NOVEL “BILLIARDS AT HALF-PAST NINE”

The proposed article explores the role of animal metaphors in creating the artistic imagery of Heinrich Boll's novel “Billiards at half-past nine”. The idea of conceptual metaphor is outlined, the approaches to the classification of metaphors are analyzed, the metaphors of animals in the novel are singled out and the conceptual meanings of these metaphors are determined. The key metaphors of the novel used to depict the main conflict were revealed to be the metaphors of a lamb and a buffalo. The most common conceptual meaning of the lamb metaphor is “a blessed creature; the one who is on the right path”; there are also such meanings as “a nice, obedient creature; the one who will not offend”, “a cowardly creature” and “an unhappy creature”. Metaphorized animals were used as the source domain to refer to humans as the target domain. Such metaphors play a key role in creating an image inherent in different types of people, ensure its perception and understanding by the reader, emphasize the positive or negative, and often dual features, and create the necessary atmosphere. Prospects for further research on the proposed topic can be seen in the field of translation, namely in the aspect of the most adequate reproduction of animal metaphors in translation into Ukrainian.