The Author and the Hero in the Poem “Povest’ Skorbi” of Nikolai Klyuev Cover Image

Автор и герой в поэме Николая Клюева «Повесть скорби»
The Author and the Hero in the Poem “Povest’ Skorbi” of Nikolai Klyuev

Author(s): Igor V. Kudryashov
Subject(s): Semantics, Comparative Study of Literature, Russian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: a new peasant poetry; continuity; dialogue; literary tradition; poem; reminiscence; N. A. Klyuev; A. S. Pushkin;

Summary/Abstract: This article provides an analysis of an autobiographic image of the lyric hero of the poem “Povest’ Skorbi” (“The Povest’ of Sorrow”) by N. A. Klyuev (1933). The author of this poem puts forward the “kinship” closeness of his own destiny and his main creative concepts to his great predecessor, poet A. S. Pushkin. The text of Klyuev’s poem contains numerous references to the facts of Pushkin’s biography and his works. The study of these references is important not only for understanding the deep semantic layers of one of the most touching works of Olonets poet but also for understanding the principles of continuity of Pushkin’s ethical and aesthetic concepts in the late works of Klyuev.

  • Issue Year: 16/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 151-173
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Russian