Mature modernism. Kuzmin, Mandelstam, Akhmatova and others

In this book, the direction inside the Silver Age is distinguished and analyzed, conventionally designated as modernism of the "Middle Way". The texts of relatively late, "mature" modernists - Mikhail Kuzmin, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva and George Ivanov - the galaxy of the authors who abandoned the super -focused ideas of the symbolist and futuristic sample (departure from this world to a different world to the world writer, like a demiurge, a prophet, a magician, a superman, etc) and who saw the main advantage of an artistic statement in literature: taste and style, human voice, non -trivial content, experiments organically built into the narrative, and - wider - living balance of all parts of the text. The novelty of the book consists in rethinking the recognized masterpieces of the Silver Age and in the introduction into the literary circulation of little -known or undeservedly forgotten texts. Kuzmin and Akhmatova receive new lighting, the latter - as managed to raise life creation, practiced by the Symbolists, to an inaccessible level for them, which corresponded to the modernist aesthetics of the "medium".
detailed monographic analysis proposed in the 14 chapters of this book are combined with discussions about the state of subdisciplines such as Ahmatical studies, cousinism and mandelstam studies.
The book is intended for specialists in Russian literature and a wide intelligent reader