RUSSIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE IN THE LYRICAL INTERPRETATION OF SERGEY STRATANOVSKY: POEMS WITH AN IMPERSONAL ROLE SUBJECT

In the lyrics of Sergei Stratanovsky there are quite frequent references to works of Russian classical literature, to the persons of classical writers; first of all, these are Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky. Stratanovsky’s “literary” poems are very elegantly organized in the subjective plane: sometimes classical writers and the heroes of their works are presented from the point of view of a subject who seems to be observing them, but there are also such texts where the explicit subject is a role-playing one: for example, Bulgakov’s Sharikov or Shatov from Dostoevsky’s “Demons”. There are also poems with an impersonal subject, who can rightfully be called a lyrical hero (“Fantasies on the Themes of Gogol”, partly “Boldin Reflections”). The article examines those poems byStratanovsky related to Russian classical literature that are constructed in the form of role-playing lyrics, but the subject in them is impersonal, that is, is not directly explicated by the first person - neither by a pronoun nor by a verb: these are the poems “Oblomov”, “Prince Myshkin”, “Gogol Writes the Second Volume of Dead Souls”. Each of them presents the point of view of the character brought out in the title, but formally this is not done on behalf of the character. Observations show that in the three poems examined, the author puts his own reflection into the reflection of the hero of the classical text or the writer who created the classical text. As a result, it turns out that the impersonal role-playing subject, in contrast to the simply impersonal subject and the grammatically explicated role-playing subject, turns out to be inside the depicted world, and not outside of it, and comes closer to the author, becoming in fact a lyrical hero. That is, such a non-trivial way of subjective organization allows the poet to understand himself through another.