Образ советского детства как условие самоидентификации героя в зрелых поэмах Л. Рубинштейна

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of structural, compositional and figurative series of the “catalog” poems “The Appearance of a Hero” (1986), “Mama Washed the Frame” (1987), “This Is Me” (1995) by Lev Rubinstein, which made up his most representative collection “Regular Writing” (1996). The research was undertaken in order to comprehend not only the formal features of Rubinstein’s poems, which modern criticism most often turned to, but also the content and semantic layer of the poet’s “card” texts. The authors of the article differentiate the main ideological and figurative dominants of Rubinstein’s mature poems, identify the existential spaces of the characters contoured in the text, trace the maturation of the persona’s own idea of the world and himself. In particular, the authors consider the motif of the hero’s self-identification, his self-determination in the atmosphere of memories of childhood, of the Soviet past, which is an end-to-end motif for all the analyzed poems. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the fact that it is the first to examine various aspects of the hero’s self-determination within the framework of Rubinstein’s conceptualist poems, to reveal axiological perspectives of the persona’s memories of the Soviet past, the country and himself. As a result, it is proved that Rubinstein’s catalog texts, declared by conceptualists as “meaningless”, are permeated not only with semantic, but also with nostalgic motifs.