Abstract
The article analyzes a small fragment of D. I. Kharms’s story The Old Woman (1939), where the name of the outstanding Russian biologist I. I. Metchnikoff is mentioned. The genealogy of the scientist’s public image, as well as the various contexts of its existence, are reconstructed. The origins of the parodic «theory of nutrition», proposed by one of the characters, its connection with the lifebuilding practices of the 1920s-1930s, and with the ideas and practices of the Oberiuts in particular, are outlined. The article demonstrates the most probable reasons for the parodic refractions of Metchnikoff’s theories in Kharms, Kharms’s sharp rejection of specialized scientifi c knowledge, positivist scholarship, rationalism, as well as Metchnikoff’s reception of the views of Goethe and Bergson.
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