The art of life. Life as a subject of aesthetic attitude in Russian culture of the XVI-XX centuries

“The art is the art of living” - the formula that Andrei Bely, Enfant Terrible, determined the essence of art in due time - is essentially the quintessence of a certain poetics of behavior. The history of the “art of living” in Russia originates in tortures with laughter during the time of Ivan the Terrible, but it received theoretical justification later, in the era of romanticism, and then symbolism. This book is dedicated to genres in which the text and body merge into a single whole: a laughing community that formed with the help of group staging and private texts a kind of parallel, alternative reality, contrasted by the kingdoms of lies that arose ex nihilo only at the expense of the word, literary mystification , in which another, pseudo -author layer arises between the author and the text, novels with a key in which the actual and fictitious intertwine with each other, gaining or inventing their own life and reality. Following the Moscow School of Cultural Semiotics and the American Poetics of Culture, the author of the book creates his theory of life -making