The artifact reading experience: “Pushkin notebook” by Alexei Remizov

Abstract

The article actualizes the range of problems of phenomenology of the text in relation to such specific objects of the creative heritage of A. M. Remizov as his albums. Based on the basic provisions of semiotic analysis, the author of the article proposes to investigate the Remizov’s artifact in the field of scientific concepts was formulated by Y. M. Lotman and R. Barth — in relation to the myth of the modern times. For the first time the article introduces a complete description of the insufficiently researched archive document of the so-called “pushkin notebook”. Fragments of this artifact — are printed other people’s texts. The dominant topic is directly or indirectly related to the name “Pushkin” and the development of the Pushkin myth. Optional topics is connected to the Remizov’s role as an actor of cultural process of 20th century. To detect the projection of textual and iconographic artifact fragments on hidden episodes, the authoruses the term “after-text”, meaning the domain of biographical and cultural connotations. The aim is to verify the productivity of reading of the author’s artistic composition as the sign system. As a result, the Remisov’s idea of “pushkin notebook” as a “monument” of culture was restored. There was revealed the principle of the organization of artifact’s “text” by analogy with the models of Remisov’s cultural chronicles of the beginning 1920s and 1930s. The structural-semiotic approach to verbal and iconic artifact fragments, as well as the using of archeographic description to reveal the author’s reflection provides a new perspective on the phenomenon of Pushkin myth in the paradigm of the literary reception of the 20th century.