Abstract
Efim ETKIND, Viacheslav Ivanov and the questions of poetics in the 1920s. Viacheslav Ivanov was instrumental in creating a theory of poetry. This activity brings him close to his contemporaries, Briusov, Belyi and even Bal'mont. This paradoxical marriage between Symbolists' intuitivism and their scientific rationalism is explained by the discovery of various poetical worlds, due to Symbolists' attempts at being acquainted with new aesthetic phenomena, still indecipherable. In 1921-1922, Ivanov gave several lectures at Baku University, the texts of which had never been published. This study, based on the notes of one of Ivanov's students, analyses his conceptions of poetics (such as the nature of the language, the origine of sonorous images, the phonetic structure of poetry, etc.). The article concludes that Ivanov creates his theory through a constant polemics with the young Formalists. In spite of obvious divergencies, it can be stated that it is at the beginning of the twentieth century that modem poetics was created, thanks to the common efforts of Symbolists, Acmeists and supporters of the Russian formalist school.
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