| Summary: | This paper examines the role of the -val-/-lav- phonological sequences
which create the semantic centre of the Don Juan theme in world
literature and parallel folk texts, and concentrates on the Stone Guest by
Pushkin. The phonological equivalence of the Spanish
cavalera/cavallero, and Buslaevic/golova/valjatisja in the Russian
bylina is the most important line generating semantic and dramaturgic
constructions. The sequential structure of the text accomplishes the
motif of punishment/forgiveness in the relations of the three main
characters (Don Juan=Diego de Calvado, Dona Anna de Solva, Don
Alvar) and in the author’s final instruction the sequences collapse
(provalivajutsja).
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