«ДАР МУДРЫХ ПЧЕЛ» Ф. СОЛОГУБА: ТЕКСТ И ПРЕТЕКСТ

Abstract

The article analyzes the pretext of F. Sologub’s tragedy “The Gift of Wise Bees”. The article by F. Zelinskiy “Ancient Lenore” contained analysis of various developments of the “Lenore’s motif” in ancient and new literature. It was the scientist’s retelling of various interpretations that became the source of the idea for the tragedy by F. Sologub. He took advantage not only of the most stable motives of the works by his predecessors – the motif of the return of the dead groom, the motif of the statue, the motif of Protesilaus’ betrayal, the motif of the dispute between Laodamia’s dead husband and her father etc. – but also embodied the most important idea of his philosophical and creative concept, which was the very goal of stylization. Giving Aphrodite the properties of both the goddess of love and the goddess of revenge (Aphrodite-Moira), the playwright expressed in her image the idea of the identity of love and death, as well as the creating and destroying power of art, symbolized by Lysippos, a new character in comparison with the works of F. Sologub’s predecessors. It is in the fragments of the tragedy which are free from the stylization of the pretext, F. Sologub expresses the most important for his creative work ideas. Key words: philosophical and creative concept, basic myth, ballad, stylization, pretext, motif.