Н. В. Гоголь и А. М. Ремизов: эстетическая константа и юбилейные переменные

Abstract

The article analyzes the evolution of the Gogol theme in the writer’s work. In the mid-1900s — early 1920s, Remizov followed in Gogol’s footsteps, creating his own version of the «Petersburg text». From the late 1920s and into the 1930s, he mythologized the personality of the author of the Dead Souls, treating him as a half-demon, «stuck» between the two circles of a mystical universe, and as a prophetic writer who could share his «insights» with the readers. For Remizov, Gogol was one of the writers who subscribed to the «Russian mode theory». In the late 1940s and 1950s, Remizov plunged into the new stage of his «creative discovery» of Gogol’s legacy, linking it with the main theme of his work of the time — speculations on the Christian dogma of the resurrection of the dead.