Open Access“PUSHKIN IN THE LYCEUM YEARS” BY V.A. FAVORSKY AS A PROGRAM OF METATEXTUAL PUSHKIN STUDIES
Author(s) -
Alexander V. Markov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
praktiki and interpretacii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2415-8852
DOI - 10.18522/2415-8852-2021-2-88-98
Subject(s) - poetry , interpretation (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , autonomy , gesture , literature , independence (probability theory) , relation (database) , art , aesthetics , philosophy , sociology , history , linguistics , law , political science , computer science , archaeology , mathematics , statistics , database
The famous graphic image of Pushkin, made by V.A. Favorsky, is considered as a concept for the development of Pushkin’s talent, and may be considered polemical in relation to the interpretation of the Pushkin lyceum-student by Bryusov. Based on the analysis of Favorsky’s illustrations to the works of Pushkin, offered by E. Babaev and A. Korolev, I argue that Favorsky opposed the sociological and psychological consideration of early Pushkin with the concept of Pushkin as convincingly defending the independence of poetic ideas from the socio-historical context in all periods of his activity. Favorsky was in a dialogue with the Russian avant-garde, joining it in denying theatricalization as a key to Pushkin’s work, and supporting the radical gestures of the avant-garde as fit for a better remodelling of the independence of Pushkin’s early work. Favorsky’s graphics can be viewed as a metatext showing exactly how Pushkin defends the autonomy of poetry as a separate area, which should be thought not as a world of private aesthetic solutions, but as a variant of self-control, as opposed to theatrical provocations from the public.