The poetic landscape of Arkady Dragomoschenko
Abstract
The article is devoted to the consideration of the culturological problems touched upon in the creative and cultural activities of the St. Petersburg poet Arkady Dragomoshchenko. The key features of the author's poetics and the main directions of their interpretation in the discovered corpus of reflexive texts devoted to Dragomoshchenko's biography and creative method are identified. The author of the article analyzes the facts of the poet's biography, regarding which there is a research consensus, and proposes a hypothesis about the key role of transcultural communication in the development of Dragomoshchenko's ideas about poetry and the method of writing itself. The main provisions of Dragomoshchenko's cultural reflection are emphasized, as well as the field and forms of interaction of his creative method with the national cultural tradition, primarily in the aspect of comprehension of poetry. It is shown that the specificity of Dragomoshchenko's poetics lies in the problematization of the traditional lyrical subject, the destruction of the attitude to visuality or emotional content, which finds its expression in the key motifs of “indirectness”, “peeling off” as a refusal of “appropriation”, as well as in the methodological requirement not to reduce the symbolism of a text to a particular meaning. It is emphasized that such a poetic method was the result of poststructuralist philosophy, which can be regarded as the foundation of Dragomoshchenko's work as a whole. The analysis of the poet's journalistic texts leads to discovering the topology of the collision between the author's writing practice and the evaluation given from within the conventional cultural attitudes he reflects. Comparing critical and poetic texts, the author of the article concludes that reference to philosophical context and cultural reflection are an integral part of Dragomoshchenko's creative method.
