Гетеротопии поэзии: онейрическая метареальность Анны Ахматовой
Heterotopias in Poetry: Anna Akhmatova’s Oneiric Meta-reality

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the oneiric space, and on its poetic representation in Anna Akhmatova’s works. In Akhmatova’s poetic cycles Northern Elegies and Midnight Verses, Poem without a Hero and the play Enuma elish. Prologue, Or a Dream within a Dream, which was burned in the 1940s, but partially restored in the 1960s, as well as in several other poems of the late 1950s and 1960s, we are dealing with some kind of meta-reality expressed by invariant motifs of dream, slumber, twilight sleep and night apparitions. In one case this oneiric meta-reality is explicitly declared. In other cases it’s implied, and then Akhmatova shows the formal and substantive structure of the text, which is similar to the structure of the dream. Unspent possibilities of events, actions, feelings and statements constitute most of Akhmatova’s texts, which are related to the oneiric theme. So the dream is not seen as an alternative possible world, but like the world of possible in the poetry of Akhmatova. Dreaming meta-reality can be described as a conditional heterotopia, “other place”, which is generated by the imagination of the poet. The need for such dreaming heterotopia may be caused by the situation of the creation of another (potential) self-model, because the oneiric heteroclite space can, according to Foucault, “suspect, neutralize, or invert the set of relations” of the waking world.

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