Metacriticism of an artistic writing style: Venedikt Yerofeyev on Vladimir Mayakovsky

Abstract

Venedikt Yerofeyev is a remarkable and complex figure in Russian literature of the second half of the XX century. He is one of the first to expresses a different perspective on the realities of life and propose a new type of assessment of being. The object of this research is the introductory composition of Venedikt Yerofeyev written in 1961, at the time of joining Vladimir State Pedagogical Institute. The main subject of the analysis is the objectification of V. Yerofeyev’s metacritical assessment of “All Right!” Research methodology is at the edge of conceptual evaluation of the text, hermeneutical interpretation of the composition, structural and comparative approaches. The basis of receptive criticism, which in the author’s opinion was taken by Venedikt Yerofeyev as the principle of interpretation of Mayakovsky’s poetic construct, unites the outlines circle of methods. The novelty and relevance of this work consists in the fact that Yerofeyev’s  introductory composition has not been previously examined and commented upon in of a number of scientific sources. Yerofeyev’s writing has a clearly humanistic and philological connotation. The author creates the text by a unique research pattern: from the emotionally sensible focus of experiences of Vladimir Mayakovsky to verification of the positions of synthesis of personal and social order in the poem “All Right!” Metacricisim of Mayakovsky's style and artistic manner in the composition of Venedikt Yerofeyev is given not only from the perspective of point estimation of text of the futurist poet, but also from the standpoint of intensive reduction of the potentially inherent meaning.