THE COSMOPOLITAN ASPECT OF YURI KUZNETSOV’S EARLY WORK
The purpose of this article is to consider the cosmopolitan aspect of Yuri Kuznetsov’s early works. Kuznetsov was the Russian poet of the 2nd half of the 20th century. The main method of research for us is the method of ontological poetics, and elements of interdisciplinary and comparative analysi...
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Alfred Nobel University Publisher
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this article is to consider the cosmopolitan aspect of Yuri Kuznetsov’s early works.
Kuznetsov was the Russian poet of the 2nd half of the 20th century. The main method of research for
us is the method of ontological poetics, and elements of interdisciplinary and comparative analysis. It
allows us to consider an artistic text in the context of consciousness and subconsciousness, archetypes and
phenomena of the surrounding being. They, in turn, form a personal author’s myth.
Yuri Kuznetsov creates his own poetic myth based on the real events of his own biography. In
particular, the phenomenon of war has a key influence on it. The author is a “children of war” generation
representative (born in 1941). His father died at the front in 1944. This fact determines Yuri Kuznetsov’s
further outlook and path in literature. The article examines a number of the poet’s early poems. The
opposition of Nature and War concepts can already be traced to each other at this stage. The latter is
portrayed as an unnatural phenomenon that hinders the development of personality. Nature symbolizes
life and natural dynamics, and War symbolizes halt and death, lack of dynamics. It comes into direct conflict
with the laws of Nature. The leitmotif of the poet’s early work is the idea of man and nature’s unity. Such
unity, in the end, allows us to build a progressive cosmopolitan model of the Home-Universe. It consists
of three parts: Family-Home, Motherland-Home, and Planet-Home. The cosmopolitan orientation of Yuri
Kuznetsov’s poems is manifested in his craving for the idea of “world citizenship”. At the same time, the
fundamentally important fact is not the rejection of the Motherland and one’s own cultural identity, but
their inclusion in a common threefold ontological model.
The article also attempts to compare Yuri Kuznetsov’s work with the ideas of Russian symbolism
representatives of the early 20th century.
Conclusion. Based on the interdisciplinary analysis of the literary text, here are the following research
results:
1. In poet Yuri Kuznetsov’s early works there is a process of upward movement along the vertical axis:
from the personal myth and the lyrical “I/me” to the universal human experience. The latter, at the same
time, is a unifying factor leading to the formation of an anti-war position.
2. The poet’s early works use cosmopolitan motives in the context of the verb “to create” which is
semantically equivalent to the verbs “to generate” and “to build”, as well as connotatively close to the
ontological processes of dynamics and movement. The verb “to create” is also opposed to the concept of
War and is considered as part of the author`s anti-war position. Creativity acts both as an anti-destructive
manifesto and as a means of uniting elements of the artistic world scattered by war. We should note that
the author’s artistic world is closely connected with his biography and personal family history.
3. Through creativity Yuri Kuznetsov attempts to comprehend the phenomenon of War in three
interdependent contexts: family, country and planet (“all people”). This approach allows us to come to
the conclusion that war is incompatible with the natural course of things, that is, in fact, with the laws of
Nature.
4. The sphere of the unconscious plays a key role in the formation of the author’s anti-war position
and the stepped three-part model of the House. One more important connotation of the verb “to create”
is connected with it. This connotation can be defined as the process of integrating the personal author’s
unconscious into the collective unconscious (“great”). At the same time, a prerequisite for successful
integration is a “storm”, a certain dynamic involving vertical ascent. The conclusions of such integration
lead the author to the idea of “world citizenship” and universal interconnection. This, in turn, forms an
anti-war position based on the similarity of the two sides in the “friend-foe” opposition. |
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| ISSN: | 2523-4463 2523-4749 |