Cain holidays. Poetics of the interval in Berlin verses by V.F. Khodasevich

In the first half of the 1920s, Berlin became the most important center of Russian literature abroad. Here, there is a formation of a special writing environment in which biographical questions “where and how to live” are associated with poetological issues? -? How and for whom to write further. The key figures of the Russian Berlin include Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939), who begins to write “European Night” in Germany? -? His last and most famous book of poems. In lyrical images and poetic narratives, the action of which takes place at the Pomeranian-Brandenburg resorts or in the Urbanic Ugar Metropolis, Khodasevich develops methods of writing and self-description of literature, which largely became paradigmatic for the poetry of Russian emigration. At the sunset of old Europe, Berlin turns into a chronotope of the defeatical clearance, the poetic and biographical point of the non -return of the deno, and the lyrical hero remains one? - to force and protocol the painful decomposition of Russian modernism. It is amazing that the “European Night”, such an important book for both Khodasevich and for Russian poetry as a whole, is still insufficiently studied. The cost of work is designed to make up for this gap. Yaroslav Ananko? -? Doctor of Philological Sciences, researcher at the Institute of Slavicism of Berlin University named after Humboldt