Dialogue Of Cultures And Its National Dominants In The Style Of V. Khlebnikov

Abstract

Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) aimed at understanding and integration of world culture riches to find new synthesis that involves solving key issues of mankind history, culture and its future. In his works of fiction, articles on various subjects, mathematical calculations, he sought to combine in a new mythology and a single "star language" theory pantheons, symbols, creativity of peoples living on different continents, representing different civilizations, in general – all humanity. This was especially evident in a number of his works and articles of the late 1910s and early 1920s: “Tuda, tuda…”, “Azy iz uzy. Edinaya kniga”, “Zangezi”, “Nasha osnova”, etc. On the other hand, "worldliness", increased in the last period of his work, focus on dialogue of cultures and their new synthesis were accompanied by other processes in the writer’s creativity and outlook. The picture of the united humanity conceivable by him was actually based on the discoveries of Russian culture, on the dominant cultural style of Russian Silver Age, and the world language was based on the Russian language and literature, including his own creative work. The worldliness, or "tendency to world-wide responsiveness" (F. Dostoevsky) of Khlebnikov was accompanied by strengthening of his creative thinking national orientation, which is found not in the sloganistic nationalist-chauvinist way, as in some of his early articles, but in sacrifice and a deep involvement in the fate of the Fatherland.