Abstract
The article examines the ethical and philosophical aspects of the work of rock musician and post-avant-garde poet E. Letov. The article states that the Russian avant-garde, unlike modernism, in which the ultimate aspiration of artists was to restore the lost harmony, comes to the type of artistic creativity focused on poetization and comprehension of chaos as a universal form of human existence. The demonstrative confrontation between the lyrical hero of E. Letov and the crowd is analyzed as one of the significant ideological problems of the artist, who keenly felt the "discrepancy" with the epoch, which, in turn, led him to rejection of the established way of viewing the world and a person. E. Letov’s concept of a disembodied, detached from the world personality, who is in search of self-identification and lost integrity, is also considered in the article. The egocentric dominant, the desire for independence of individual human life, which lead E. Letov, as an artist, to self-denial, "erasure" from the world, are characterized as related to the attitudes of the futurist poets V. Khlebnikov and V. Mayakovsky. The accentuated de-hierarchization of being is analyzed as the disintegration of unity, the isolation of separate orders claiming independence within this unity, which brings E. Letov closer to the worldview expressed in the works of A. Vvedensky and D. Kharms. It is emphasized that the concept of "madness" of the members of the Union of Real Art (OBERIU) in the consciousness of Letov’s lyrical character moves to a new ontological level, and the strength of emotional tension combined with the tragedy of real fate leads the poet to a special conflict of the avant-garde construction of the image of the world, which manifests itself in the de-hierarchization of all subsystems of Letov’s texts (speech, space-time, characterological), in the weakening of causal connections, in genre fluctuations and crises.
Keywords
Letov, postavangard, the end of history, world-chaos, demythologization.