THE GRAPE MOTIF IN THE WORKS OF K. VAGINOV: THE PROJECTIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

Abstract

The article deals with the image of grape in K. Vaginov’s prose. The author focuses mainly on its biblical component, which sets significant semantic projections in the writer’s texts. However, much of irony, the complex correlation of the poetic and the everyday, the tragic and the comic make the image of grapes and a number of adjacent images of wine, wine grower, Jesus Christ, etc. extremely rich and metaphorical. The author concludes that behind the increased semantic density of the image stands the modernist tradition of the Silver age, which dictates the absolute subjectivity, inner conflict and relativism of the literary work.