Поэтика «cумеречности» в пространстве эпохи

Abstract

In the article it is intended to consider the code of “Twilightness” in the context of the world culture of the first two decades of the 20th century. Expressionist anthology Twilight of mankind is published in 1919. This anthology serves as a tuning fork of all “Symphony of the latest poetry”, as it was specified in the subtitle. Not only in the German-speaking area, but also in Russia, the atmosphere of impending twilight was a sign of an entire era and coincided with the currents of the avant-garde movement on a universal scale. The interconnected constants of this perceptions, such as the motives of the victim, doom, death, despair, longing, fear, were quite specific to this age and meant more than mere minor emotion,— it’s an important cultural phenomenon waiting to be understood. In the artistic field of expressionism, the tanatological code that contains a whole spectrum of the main mythologem of the avant-garde, is the core, acting as a sort of counterway, a re-e versal of the utopian-transformative code.