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Title of Article

PUSHKIN‘S CONTEXT IN BELLA AKHMADULINA‘S POEMS ABOUT ST PETERSBURG


Issue
3
Date
2019

Article type
scientific article
UDC
82.0
Pages
17-25
Keywords
Ахмадулина, Петербург, Петербургский текст, пушкинский контекст, Akhmadulina, Petersburg, Petersburg text, Pushkin, ‘s context


Authors
Yashina Kseniya Ivanovna
Natsionalnyy issledovatelskiy Nizhegorodskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet im. N.I. Lobachevskogo


Abstract
The article discusses the features of the representation of St. Petersburg as a cultural and geographical phenomenon in Bella Akhmadulina‘s poems. The author focuses on the role of the Pushkin context in the image of the city created by Akhmadulina. The study is based on the pieces written in 1978 and 1985 in Leningrad. The analysis is based on the assertion that the city was perceived by Akhmadulina, first of all, as evidence of the cultural past. Therefore, her poems reflect a conscious orientation to the tradition of Russian literature. It is noted that Akhmadulina had been greatly interested in Pushkin‘s life and work. The author proves the analyzed excerpts contain references to the poet‘s biography and work, as well as comprehension of Pushkin‘s themes and images in Akhmadulina‘s poems, and shows the similarities of images and motives in Akhmadulina‘s poetry and the Petersburg text of Russian literature. Akmadulina reinterprets and recreates the main part of the Petersburg text as survival trope in the context of godlessness, separation from the past. The poet discovers the idea of the tragic role of Petersburg in Russian history in a new temporal and semantic field. The author suggests that Akhmadulina also touches on the topic of the repression. The appeal to tradition in poems about Petersburg is interpreted as an attempt to overcome history buried in oblivion, to restore a spiritual connection with the past. The motive of insanity is defined as a symbol of memory loss.

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