Abstract
The article analyzes the works of the cycle of K. K. Sluchevsky “Lyrical”. These works are focused on mythological plots, images and motifs. The aim of the study is to reveal the author's concept of the universe and reflect the role of mythopoetic images and motifs in the creation of this concept. The relevance of the study is due to both the interest of modern humanitarian science in the phenomena of transitional processes in literature, and the actualization of anthropological aspects in the culture of different eras, which are the basis for the formation of the Russian national code. The authors of the article are guided by the methods of the mythological literary school and the methods of hermeneutic interpretation of artistic texts. The analysis of K. K. Sluchevsky's works shows the inconsistency of his poetic picture of the world. In the cycle “Lyrical” K. K. Sluchevsky refers to ancient Greek, ancient Roman, pagan and Christian images and motifs, eschatological myths, archetypes of day and night, sun and darkness. The author's interpretation of various mythological plots, images and motifs recreates a special mythopoetic picture of the world, in which various concepts start a philosophical dialogue: stoic acceptance of suffering and a difficult fate, escape from pain and disappointment into sleep and eternal peace, condemnation of the “damaged mind” of people unworthy of rebirth in a better world, and a call to enjoy the joys of earthly existence. All these ideas are combined in one cycle, which allows us to conclude that the author's mythological concept of the world is contradictory, in which the serious and the funny, the tragic and the ironic collide, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, suffering and fun, disappointment and pleasure are intertwined. Thus, life itself is seen by the poet as a combination of the incompatible, as an interweaving of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, tragic and funny.
Keywords
Russian poetry of the late 19th century, mythopoetics, poetics of the lyrical cycle, archetypes, intermediality, phenomenon of the author's worldview.