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- Title
Русская литература sub specie mortis: набоковская интерпретация творчества Гоголя. Часть 2-я
- Authors
Józsa, György Zoltán
- Abstract
'Every Russian writer owes something to Gogol.' This Nabokovian statement questions beliefs traditionally formulated in respect to Gogol's oeuvre. His book paradoxically introduced by the depiction of the writer's death implies that the motif of death has a specific impact on the genesis of the artefact. The similar postmodernist theory by Terc echoes in part ideas found in the symbolist perception of Gogol (Annensky, Blok, Rozanov, Merezhkovsky, and Andrei Bely). Gogol's poetics centred upon this principle, reminiscent of Dante's Divine Comedy, can be traced throughout the works of Russian authors - a thesis to be scrutinised in a series of forthcoming articles. The irrational in Gogol's views concerning true art thus shall discard the labels of critical realism and art envisaged as the device meant to perfect human society, consequently via the transmutation of the self shall true art fulfil its ultimate mission. Introducing the dichotomy of 'poet' - 'non-poet' indicates a precursor of the Solovyovian doctrine of the superman. The ideal of transgression is expressed through applying the medieval interpretation of the language distinguishing Dante's work, offering a profound reading of texts. The poetics of death penetrating Gogol's works implicates handling and interpreting of various phenomena of culture synthesised, including models of self-perfection realised by alchemy, freemasonry, and Russian sophiology.
- Subjects
GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852; NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977; 19TH century Russian literature; 20TH century Russian literature; DEATH in literature
- Publication
Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2014, Vol 59, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
0039-3363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1556/SSlav.59.2014.1.11