Молодежное поэтическое движение в Удмуртии

Abstract

The author gives a survey of the youth poetic organizations and unions that were established in Udmurtia in the last two decades of the 20 th century. The spiritual and aesthetic search of modern youth is typologically compared to the logic of the literary process of the Russian Silver Age, and also fits into the present regional and all-Russian socio-cultural context. The article names the most outstanding figures, whose creative work reflects the most characteristic tendencies in the young poets’ need for an appropriate self-expression and their personal cultural and historical identification. The said tendencies include experiments with lyrics (the so-called “recondite” language); attention to the frequently overlooked poetic etymology, which is connected to the Russian futurism of the early 20 th century and Udmurt ethno-futurism; the usage of irony and self-irony principles which help the young generation to exercise collective self-knowledge unmasking the new ideological cults created either by themselves or imposed by the mass media; the urge towards the exposure of life-asserting nature in the so-called Mercury Age. Attention to this youth culture is promising because it may help comprehend the topical issue of cultures interaction which has only become possible today, after the collapse of numerous ideological, aesthetic, and behavioral stereotypes. It will also facilitate the definition of the new status of a philologist in the still chronologically boundless literary situation.