Open AccessText and Subtext: On the Example of Two Poems by Boris Pasternak
Author(s) -
Tomas Venclova
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
semiotika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2424-547X
pISSN - 1392-0219
DOI - 10.15388/semiotika.2015.16749
Subject(s) - poetry , demon , subtext , literature , art , reading (process) , philosophy , linguistics
A close reading of two poems by Boris Pasternak (“A Storm in July” and “To the Memory of Demon”). Both poems are considered to be inverted variants (or “antitexts”) of Russian classical poems by Fiodor Tiutchev and Mikhail Lermontov (Tiutchev‘s “Spring Storm” and Lermontov‘s “Demon,” respectively). According to the author, this technique may be typical for many other poetic texts written by Pasternak.