TWO ESCHATOLOGICAL CONCEPTS BY ALEXANDER BASHLACHOV |
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| 2022 |
| MUSIC AND WORD |
| scientific article | 821.161.1 | ||
| 61-72 | Александр Башлачёв, эсхатология, апокалипсис, постапо-калипсис, апокатастасис, Alexander Bashlachov, eschatology, apocalypse, post-apocalypse, apocatastasis |
| Article is dedicated to the analysis of those eschatological perceptions, which are directly or implicitly embodied in the song texts of Alexander Bashlachov (1960-1988). The eschatological concept of the famous poet, rock-musician and bard cannot be considered homogeneous as it reveals a pronounced tendency to transformations which are caused by the social changes of perestroika years and the moments of his individual biography. On the basis of the analysis of Alexander Bashlachov's texts the conclusion is made that Alexander Bashlachov's poetics reflects not one but two eschatological concepts which can't be reduced to simple private modifications of some general initial basis. The author shows that the evolution of Bashlachov's art follows some regularities among them is gradual deliverance from the assurance of his Messianic vocation reduction of those features which typologically ascend to the image of prophet-poet, seer-poet. This article also gives a characteristic of how the Christian motifs in Bashlachov's works are interlaced with the mystical New Age movements and pan-religion. At the same time the article contains observations concerning textology of Alexander Bashlachov's songs and impossibility to automatically apply to them traditional principles of poetic text-criticism. The latter circumstance makes the proposed article interesting not only for specialists in the works of Aleksandr Bashlachov or rock-poetry in general, but also for all those researchers who study the auditory component of the art word. |
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