«Blessed is he who in silence was a poet» (word and silence in the poetry of V. Khodasevich)

Abstract

Vladislav Khodasevich, silent as a poet in 1928, is inscribed in the context of Russian literature and philosophy (IE Baratynsky, F. Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, P. Florensky, A. Losev, Andrei Platonov, B. Lifshitz). The article reveals the ontological meaning of silence as a state filled with the possibility of a second birth.

Keywords

• Vladislav Khodasevich
• the poetry of the 1920s 19 century
• ontology of artistic espression