SURREALIST THESAURUS IN V. KONDRATIEV’S POETRY: LOGIC AND WAYS OF OBJECTIFYING SURREALIST STATEMENTS Cover Image

СЮРРЕАЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ТЕЗАУРУС В ПОЭЗИИ В. КОНДРАТЬЕВА: ЛОГИКА И СПОСОБЫ ОБЪЕКТИВАЦИИ СЮРРЕАЛИСТИЧЕСКОГО ВЫСКАЗЫВАНИЯ
SURREALIST THESAURUS IN V. KONDRATIEV’S POETRY: LOGIC AND WAYS OF OBJECTIFYING SURREALIST STATEMENTS

Author(s): Oleg Sergeevich Gorelov
Subject(s): Russian Literature
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: narrative mimesis; surreal; pataphysics; concept; thesaurus; modern Russian poetry;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the principles of thesaurus building for surrealist concepts in the poetry of V. Kondratiev.The history of the main concepts of surrealism – dream, imagination, objective case (anticipation), dream, rêve,eye, mirror, flâneuring journey, memory and oblivion, childhood, love – is taken into account by the poet on an intentional level, but does not unfold in the texts, therefore such concepts are included in the composition of the statement both as foreign elements with altered motivation and as natural, regular words of the artistic discourse. Kondratiev uses them to fill the poetic thesaurus not only of his poetry, but of Russian poetry in general. In Kondratiev’s surrealist thesaurus,the polyvalent concept of desert attracts particular attention. On the one hand, the poet actualizes the very meaning of emptiness, building dialogic connections in the field of world and Russian poetry. On the other hand, the concept of desert is developed into the surrealistically processed and arranged image of sand and motif of wind, coupled with the motif of human breath (birth), which creates a subjective trigger – children’s images. Due to the the saurusbuilding process, Kondratiev’s verses reveal an example of mimetic surrealism, rare for Russian poetry. Elements traditionally associated with prose penetrate and shape the poetic text. The point here is not just about the prosaization of poetry, but about the objectification and mimetization of surrealist and, more broadly, shift statements in the field ofpoetry.

  • Issue Year: 43/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 89-96
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian