Поэтика аутентичного текста: проблема издания стихотворения М. Ю. Лермонтова «И. П. Мятлеву»
The Poetics of the Authentic Text: The Problem of Publishing Mikhail Lermontov’s Poem “To I. P. Myatlev”

Summary/Abstract: The problematic field of the article is related to the dating and publication of the definitive text of M. Yu. Lermontov’s poem “To I. P. Myatlev.” The historical, literary, and logical arguments in favor of dating the poem to 1840 are systematized. The article examines the tradition of publishing a poem from publication in the journal “Otechestvennye Zapiski” in 1842 to publication in the latest scientific edition of the works of Mikhail Lermontov in 2014. Various variants of the title complex from the first edition to the 2014 edition, in which the text of the poem is reproduced most closely to the autograph, are considered. At the same time, it should be noted that the 2014 edition allowed the selection of autograph texts and the previous publication tradition concerning graphics, word order, and punctuation. The arguments of the definitive text proposed for publication include not only M. Yu. Lermontov’s autograph, but also archival sources from the collections of I. P. Myatlev and P. A. Vyazemsky. It is established that the inaccuracy of the first publication in the “Otechestvennye Zapiski,” which was then taken as the canonical text, led to both the replication of distortions and inaccuracies in literary critics’ comments on the poem. The conjectures introduced by the publishers made it difficult to fully understand the author’s play on words, the peculiarities of the poetics of irony, and did not provide an opportunity to evaluate the subtle dialogue of poets in the cultural situation of the first half of the 19th century.

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