ПРОВИНЦИЯ В ПОЭЗИИ НАТАЛЬИ ХАТКИНОЙ

Abstract

The article contains a conceptual analysis of the province in the works of the Donetsk poet Natalia Khatkina (1956–2009). The main features of overcoming the creative provinciality are revealed: 1) an aspiration for the center; 2) a detached attitude to provincial realities; 3) an awareness of the essential identity of metropolitan and provincial poetry; 4) a creative product of the provincial center, similar to the capital. Semiotics of intentions of provincial life are shown on the examples of the Donetsk city text: 1) the desire for Moscow; 2) “provincial paintings” of the Donetsk life; 3) experiments of the author’s psychopoetic analysis; 4) experiments of the author’s creative reorientation. Province and provinciality are contrasted as interrelated, but diverse and not always coinciding factors of creative realization. “Province” — the location in relation to an administrative center; it’s the specifics containing a generalization; it is a common place that unites the diversity of certain areas into a single topos. “Provinciality”, on the contrary, is an abstraction that is filled with concrete psychological and social manifestations caused by the center-peripheral circumstances of creative existence. Overcoming provincial conditionality is understood as an ontological energy of aesthetic results. Poetic experience, in addition to its aesthetic value, also has the ontological power necessary to overcome external and internal circumstances. The analysis of poetic reflections which define the acts of creative overcoming and vectors of author’s intentions makes it possible to comprehend vital and creative experiences that have overcome external circumstances.