BOBYL AND DRUZHOK" AND "SONG OF THE DOG" BY SERGEI YESENIN: TWO ARTISTIC VERSIONS OF ONE AUTHOR’S IDEA |
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| scientific article | 82 | ||
| 57-69 | «Песнь о собаке», «Бобыль и Дружок», «Радуница», «Песнь о хлебе», пасхальный хронотоп, рождественский сюжет, жанр сказки, атрибуция, "Song of the Dog", "Bobyl and Druzhok", "Radunitsa", "The Song of Bread", Easter chronotope, Christmas plot, fairy tale genre, attribution |
| The focus of this article is on the multi-genre works of S.A. Yesenin - the poem "Song of the Dog" and the story "Bobyl and Druzhok" - considered as two artistic versions of one author’s idea. This formulation of the problem determines the scientific novelty of the proposed study. It is shown that this idea was first implemented in a prose text, organic in its ideological and aesthetic solution (folklore and fairy tale tradition, Easter chronotope) to the worldview of the poet’s first book "Radunitsa" (1916). The content of the "Song of the Dog", permeated with evangelical reminiscences and allusions, constitutes the religious and mystical context of the poem, which will become a recognizable feature of the poetics of Yesenin’s "neo-Biblical" epic - eleven short poems written in 1917-1919. It is emphasized that the chronotope of the lyrical text is associated with figurative and motive dominants, characteristic of the Christmas plot, explicated in the works that were mainly created by the poet after the publication of the book "Radunitsa". It is argued that the typological convergence of the texts of the poem and the story in the character, motive and plot spheres testify to the initial community of their creative concept, dating back to 1915, when "Bobyl and Druzhok" was written. "The Song of the Dog", conceived at the same time, was completed by Yesenin no earlier than 1917. |
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