Poetry against violence: Sergey Zavyalov’s poems

Abstract

The article discusses Sergey Zavyalov’s cycle of poems “Christmas Lent” as a polyphonic text - evidence of the besieged Leningrad in the context of philosophical reflections on whether poetry is possible after Auschwitz. The story of the victim, as well as the weather forecast and news report from the front, become the main document of the tragedy of human existence in the era of the collapse of humanism.

Keywords

• sergey zavyalov
• “christmas advent”
• siege of leningrad
• victim
• trauma