О контактах в эссеистике Мандельштама с философской прозой Герцена
About contacts in Mandelstam's essays with Herzen's philosophical prose

Summary/Abstract: The author studies multi-level links of Mandel´štam’s intellectual prose with Herzen’s tradition, starting from direct poet’s assessments of Herzen’s memoirs role for his spiritual formation. At the moment of the highest feeling of persecution the poet’s thought applies to creator of “free Russian word” dignity. The paper analyzes impact of the publicist’s ideas on the evolution in Mandel´štam’s disposition. Non-marked reminiscencies in poet-culturologist’s silhouettes of philosophers, public men, poets and their epochs, clearly demonstrates original approach of his to tradition: modern art must creatively combine unveiling a human being in various branches of the humanistic literature of the past. In the spiritual life concept of democratic Russia, its opposition to bourgeois non-spirituality is clearly seen in the poetical core of links of lyrical prose of both poets, which allowed Mandel´štam to directly develop Herzen’s metaphorical definitions of thought types spreading them over new intellectual spheres. Synthetic mentality of creative thought of two literary artists-philosophers is akin: reality tendencies, and art processes are realized by them not in single ideas but in developed metaphors, mobile rapprochement of various entity levels, retaining warmth of life itself.

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