Zhitenev, A. A. MYTH ABOUT K. N. BATYUSHKOV IN RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE 1970–2000 // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 7 (184). P. 44–50. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.384


Literary studies

MYTH ABOUT K. N. BATYUSHKOV IN RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE 1970–2000

Zhitenev
A. A. 		Voronezh State University
Keywords:
K. Batyushkov
contemporary Russian poetry
reception
literary canon
poetology
myth		 Summary: The turn of the XX–XXI centuries in Russian poetry is a period of the poetic text parameters active revision, while the literary canon interaction plays an important role in the poetry-related discussions. The division of the XX century Russian literature into soviet and emigrant, censored and uncensored has led to the occurrence of a number of classics alternative interpretations. The understanding of K. Batyushkov is one of the most illustrative examples of this kind. This article examines the interaction options of the 1970–2000- ies poets with the batyushkovsky myth. Summarizing the findings, several general principles of understanding the creative works of K. Batyushkov can be noted in Russian poetry: the indivisibility of biographical evidence about the poet and his texts; mediation of understanding the creative works of K. Batyushkov by relevant for the modern poet circle of literary associations; the inclusion of batyushkov motive series in its own aesthetic code. Four productive lines were established in understanding the creative works of K. Batyushkov: Batyushkov is a prototype of the poet as such, is regarded as a “border” figure, a mediator between the earthly and the transcendent; in some contexts, he is interpreted as a poet-traveler; his “bordering” also refers to the motive of mortality and the “reincarnation” of the poetic word. Thus “Russian Hölderlin” becomes an important figure in the latest poetology, whose value is determined by not only the cultural myth of “a mad poet”, but the significance of the phenomenon of the “other canon”.



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