ЭМИГРАЦИОННАЯ ФИЛОСОФИЯ ПУТЕШЕСТВИЯ ГИЗЕЛЛЫ ЛАХМАН (ПОЭТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦИКЛ ПУТЕВАЯ ТЕТРАДЬ)
THE EMIGRATION PHILOSOPHY OF TRAVELLING BY GIZELLA LAKHMAN (POETIC CYCLE TRAVEL NOTEBOOK)

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at analysis of a poetic cycle entitled Travel Notebook (Путевая тетрадь), written by Gizella Lakhman (1890?-1969), a little-known and nowadays practically forgotten poet representing the “first wave” of Russian emigration. The cycle is discussed in the genological (belonging to the genre of the poetic travel cycle) and biographical context (emigration mobility as an impulse to literary activity). Other poems by Lakhman based on the theme of travel has also been taken into account.In the poet’s artistic worldview, travel bears the traits of philosophy, understood like Plato did, as acquiring wisdom through learning something, as a cognitive practice consisting in a constant search for truth. Behind the artistically diverse forms of mobility of the lyrical subject of Lakhman’s poetry (walk, ride, excursion, hike, journey, expedition, less frequent – wandering) there is a metaphorized image of human life, presented in an ontological, epistemological or axiological perspective. The road and being on the road are, among others, an allegory of human life (the motif of peregrinatio vitae), a figure of passing, loneliness and interpersonal relations, a reflection of the Platonic myth of the soul. In the analyzed series of poems, the journey around Europe served as an illustration for the poet’s reflections on the passing of mankind and for criticism of the condition of the world in the second half of the 20th century, dominated by mass tourism and commercialism.

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