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Sukhanova, S. Yu. RECEPTION OF SAPPHO IN THE COLLECTION OF POEMS AMOUR, EXIL... BY TIMUR KIBIROV. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2026;48(3):85–91. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2026.1305
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RECEPTION OF SAPPHO IN THE COLLECTION OF POEMS AMOUR, EXIL... BY TIMUR KIBIROV
| Sukhanova S. Yu. | Tomsk State University |
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Keywords: contemporary Russian poetry Timur Kibirov reception quotation Sappho Sapphic stanza |
Summary: The aim of the article is to analyze the reception of Sappho in the collection of poems Amour, Exil… by
Timur Kibirov. From 1950 to 2010, Sappho’s poetry underwent extensive research, translation, and critical reflection;
to these were added reflections on her work and the mythologems associated with her, which were incorporated into the
realm of poetic contemplation. The relevance of this study is determined by the need to examine the persistent trend of
modern poetry’s engagement with classical intertext, the reasons for which require explanation within the framework of
the latest scientific paradigm. The research employs structural, comparative, and hermeneutic methods. Several levels
of perception and interpretation of Sappho were identified in Kibirov’s collection of poems during the course of the
study: the use of logaoedics, imitation and interpretation of the Sapphic stanza, the mythologem of Sappho’s legendary
biography, her passion for Phaon, her suicide, and, finally, the citation of Sappho’s ode (Sa. 31, Loebel-Page). In the
late 1990s, corporeality and physiological details of both one’s own amorous languor and the body of the beloved were
perceived as a form of liberation, freedom of private life, and intimacy. The appeal to Sappho introduces the discovery
of the bodily and erotic at a new stage of its exploration by the poet into the collection’s plot. It is concluded that the
immediate reality of the experienced feeling is lost by Kibirov’s lyrical hero and is always mediated by the signs of the previous culture. This determines the necessity of a game encompassing a multitude of variations of meter, thought, and even the name of Sappho, none of which negates the authenticity of the feeling. |
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