RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism (Jun 2011)
Poetic self in the dramaturgy of N.S. Gumilev (as reflected in the play Don Juan in Egipt)
Abstract
This article analyzes the ways of representation of Don Juan in N.S. Gumilyev's play Don Juan in Egypt, which is based upon the author's feelings, as well as his life experience, transformed by means of life-creation. Besides, this article covers Gumilyev's techniques of making his personal myth of a man-winner, a conqueror of women's hearts, a poet and an artist.