Биография и творчество М.Ю. Лермонтова в поэтической рефлексии Г.В. Иванова (на материале эмигрантской лирики)

Abstract

Based on the material of G.V. Ivanov’s emigrant lyrics, the author examines some content-formal features of his poetic reflection aimed at comprehending the biography and creativity of Lermontov. Its evolution, functions and methods of artistic embodiment are characterized. It is shown that this creative reflection forms the Lermontov code of Ivanov’s poetics, which participates in the process of Ivanov’s cultural self-identification and ensures the creation of a special “ensemble unity” in his diary lyrics. The interpretation of images and motifs perceived from Lermontov in Ivanov’s foreign poetry is invariably accompanied by the leitmotif of a plucked and withering rose, which plays the role of a kind of semantic accompaniment. The archetype of the rose is interpreted by Ivanov in the key of the Dante tradition: as a sign of involvement in the world of creative choice and beauty. At the same time, the image of a withering rose in Ivanov’s “Lermontov” poems, as well as in the space of all his emigrant poetry, symbolizes beauty broken by the elements of evil. Most often, Ivanov’s poetic reflection results in a lyrical dialogue with Lermontov, expressed in an intertextual game. The specificity of Ivanov’s artistic reflection is largely determined by his ecphrastic worldview. The phenomenon of Lermontov is revealed to Ivanov through the prism of the creative individuality of his favorite painters: Watteau and Vrubel, who are perceived as spiritual and creative counterparts of the great Russian poet of the 19th nineteenth century. The evolution of Ivanov’s poetic reflection, focused on understanding Lermontov’s biography and creativity, is generally subject to existential intention and is associated with the trend of ironic and parodic development of the Lermontov tradition.