РЕФЛЕКСИЯ СОБСТВЕННОГО ОТСУТСТВИЯ В МИРЕ ЛИРИЧЕСКИМИ СУБЪЕКТАМИ ПОЗДНИХ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЙ ЕГОРА ЛЕТОВА

Abstract

t. The article is dedicated to the late works of Yegor Letov and explores the lyrical subject’s perception of the world in which he himself and people like him will no longer exist. The topic touches on the theme of death which is clearly manifesting itself in all works of the rock poet. It reveals that Letov’s lyrical subject fixes his absence in the world turning to images of nature that remain unchanged, to elements of people’s everyday life that persist without him and to the space of artistic work the contemporary to the poet. In parallel there is the self-reflection of Letov’s lyrical subject as a people’s rock poet who values living life and does not aim for pecuniary well-being. The lyrical subject of Letov when thinking about the life that will continue after the passing of his generation realizes that the world will turn upside down and become uncomfortable and unacceptable for him. The world of a deceased person will separate from the big world and begin a centripetal movement while the reverse of return will no longer be possible. An important motive is the distortion of memory about a real person, which will inevitably occur after an individual leaves the general world. Human himself will not be able to influence his posthumous fate. However shortly before his death Letov comes to a rather optimistic conclusion that he managed to transmit to living humans an undistorted healthy element of his world vision.