LITERARY WORK IN THE SYSTEM OF CULTURE

Abstract

The article considers a literary work in the context of the problem of preservation and development of cultural traditions, in particular the traditions of an author's literary and artistic creativity and reader`s co-creation. These traditions are characterized as fundamental to culture as a whole in the context of Yu. Lotman's ideas about the semiosphere as a semiotic space, which is both a prerequisite and a result of the functioning of culture. The intersection of dialogical-communicative, aesthetic-receptive, and ontological-hermeneutic understanding of a literary work presupposes a productive going beyond the narrow literary perspective on this phenomenon, requires the expansion of the theoretical scope of its subject. It is about realizing the special role of literature and, in particular, literary works representing it in the process of dialogical self-disclosure of creative individuals who need artistic expression to reconstruct the position of the other, necessary in the course of artistic cognition and self-knowing. Understanding and self-understanding, achieved in the process of dialogical interaction with the other in the space of a literary work, become a prerequisite for the fullness of life meeting the spiritual needs of personal development. Moreover, a literary work, potentially open to any person, becomes a crossroads of different cultures and eras, a mechanism for the formation and manifestation of the integrity of culture, the unity of mankind, the continuity of culture genesis.
 The need to return to the position of the author, to restore the idea of ​​the semantic center of the work outlined by the author is stated. By analogy with the concept of "Text", developed by R. Bart, it is proposed to use the concept of "Author", meaning a set of personal dialogic relationships of the author of a literary work with other authors and readers, open into the infinity of time perspective. This understanding of the author's position is aimed to prevent the simularization of a literary work, contribute to the preservation of it as a cultural value, an important tool of culture genesis.