THE APOCALYPTIC SEMASIOLOGY OF ALEXANDER BASHLACHEV’S SHORT TEXT (“OATMEAL FOREHEADS” AND UNOFFICIAL POETIC FRAGMENTS)

The article continues the study of Alexander Bashlachev’s short text from the point of view of semasiology2 (in terms of form) and apocalypticism (in terms of content). The article examines the multidirectional artistic communication of three texts: one that is included in the inclusive space of the poet’s archive (“Oatmeal foreheads” (1984)), and two that are not included (conditional names on the first lines - “Fear has shackled human faces...” (1977) and “I love you, Alice...” (1985)). These texts, with all their natural self-su ciency, to one degree or another, of course, form an isomorphic unity not only directly with a number of Bashlachev’s nodal poems / songs (“visiting cards”), but also turn into the realms of the real and the superreal, therefore the empirical emphasis is on the metaphysical principle of the creative act. A number of poetic and prose works by other authors - Alexander Pushkin, Svyatoslav Zaderiy, Lewis Carroll - also fall into the field of semasiological and intertextual correspondences. The analysis proposed so far is dotted, but still foreshortened, allows us to penetrate the author’s idea: observations bring us closest to the intentional resources of both Bashlachev’s legacy and, to some extent, the national rock heritage as a whole. In addition, this most obvious practical aspect of the proposed material motivates the possibility of continuing an authentic scientific conversation, but already in line with the search for promising mechanisms for reviewing texts of extraordinary volume, such as “Egor’s epic” or “Vanyusha”.