The Corporeality Poetics in V. Shalamov’s Lyrics

The article is devoted to the category of corporeality and the forms of its implementation in V. Shalamov’s lyrics, viz. identifying both the uniqueness of the poet’s artistic approach and the connections with tradition, in particular, acmeistic one. The stated problems have not become the object of detailed literary anal- ysis yet. To disclose the topic, the author of the article uses materials of V.T. Shalamov’s archive (Russian State Archive of Literature and Art). The article considers the most important perspectives concerning the realization of corporeality category, viz. the principle of revealing mental aspects of a personality’s life through the prism of body images, when certain emotional sensory or ideological facets are realized in a poetic text with the help of a somatological code; the relation and interaction of spiritual and physical in the characteristic of the lyrical subject; the semantic filling of key leitmotifs in Shalamov’s lyrics related to the corporate sphere and human organism. The study reveals and considers Shalamov’s characteristic property of poetic thinking consisting in extrapolating corporeality to the phenomena of natural world, as well as intelligible phenomena. The author touches upon Shalamov’s attitude to religion and specifics concerning the refraction of moral ideas in poetic discourse through the prism of tangible images. The article discloses aspects relating to the interpretation of corporeality problem in Shalamov’s lyrics and correlating with acmeistic artistic attitude.