Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne (Sep 2011)

Культурная самоидентичность как необходимость жизнедеятельности: феномен Василия Стуса

  • Walentina Nariwskaja

Journal volume & issue
no. 1
pp. 97 – 110

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Cultural self-identity as the indispensability of vital-activity: phenomenon of Vasiliy Stus The article is devoted to research of process of cultural self-identification of V. Stus creative person on a material of its epistolary heritage. Interpretation of Stuses work in domestic literary criticism is analyzed. Position of Stus in relation to sociocultural context of 1960-th is comprehended. Meaning of Stuses cultural self-identification in a context of concept “the person of Tradition”, assisting formation of his polyliterary thought is defined. The specific character of judgement of concepts differently minded, a canon, classics by Stus in a foreshortening of perception by the poet of creative model of behaviour of Pushkin is defined. Stuses dispassionateness from the Ukrainian literary continuum as a position of “stranger” in its philosofic-art judgement by Camus is emphasized. Process of Stuses cultural self-identification is comprehended as synthesis of romantic and existential traditions in creative consciousness of the poet.

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