The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Poetry by V. T. Shalamov: The Biblical Text and Context
The article in the cultural, philosophical and religious-ontological context presents the Christological theme in the poetry of V. T. Shalamov, which, developing throughout the poet’s career, underwent a peculiar evolution – from the atheistic-secularized understanding of Jesus Nazarene as a histori...
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| description | The article in the cultural, philosophical and religious-ontological context presents the Christological
theme in the poetry of V. T. Shalamov, which, developing throughout the poet’s career, underwent a peculiar
evolution – from the atheistic-secularized understanding of Jesus Nazarene as a historical person, who revealed
to the world the absolute value of the moral and ethical teachings of the New Testament, before penetrating the
spiritual and metaphysical depth of the Gospels, evangelizing the victory of life over death, being over nothingness, freedom over necessity. The purpose of this work is to study the transformation of the gospel motifs and
images, that make up the biblical realm of the world culture, in the lyrics of Shalamov in close connection with the
ethical and aesthetic searches of the poet, which turned out to coincide with the aspiration of the Russian thinkers
to the moral Absolute at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. The search for axiological constants of human existence,
enriched by the tragic experience of the gulag Golgotha, brought Shalamov from the closed sociocultural
space of Soviet reality to a spiritually boundless universe. The allusions and reminiscences related to the Holy
Scriptures form in Shalamov’s poetic heritage quite obvious biblical metatext, which has a motivational-shaped
integrity, internal lyrical plot, and mytho-suggestive coloring of specific biographical facts and artifacts that
constitute the author’s worldview. Shalamov’s apophatics of search for God under the conditions of Soviet reality
determined the ways of artistic embodiment of the image of the Son of Man in all its existential complexity
and multidimensionality. The object of this study covers the motivational layer of Shalamov’s poetry, containing
explicit and implicit references to the biblical text rethought by the author. The biblical motifs of the poetry by
Shalamov are identified through historical-genetic, hermeneutic, structural-semantic and systemic-typological
methods of studying a literary text. The image of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, comprehended in the context of
non-denominational Christianity, is central in Shalamov’s poetry. The article presents an analysis of the poem
“Treatise on Faith” that embodies the Christological vector of Russian poetry of the 20th century, which received
creative development in Shalamov’s works. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be3b6423edab49b9980ed974e3d11f5e2023-05-31T04:44:23ZrusUral State Pedagogical UniversityФилологический класс2071-24052658-52352022-12-01413314010.51762/1FK-2022-27-04-12The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Poetry by V. T. Shalamov: The Biblical Text and ContextThe article in the cultural, philosophical and religious-ontological context presents the Christological theme in the poetry of V. T. Shalamov, which, developing throughout the poet’s career, underwent a peculiar evolution – from the atheistic-secularized understanding of Jesus Nazarene as a historical person, who revealed to the world the absolute value of the moral and ethical teachings of the New Testament, before penetrating the spiritual and metaphysical depth of the Gospels, evangelizing the victory of life over death, being over nothingness, freedom over necessity. The purpose of this work is to study the transformation of the gospel motifs and images, that make up the biblical realm of the world culture, in the lyrics of Shalamov in close connection with the ethical and aesthetic searches of the poet, which turned out to coincide with the aspiration of the Russian thinkers to the moral Absolute at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. The search for axiological constants of human existence, enriched by the tragic experience of the gulag Golgotha, brought Shalamov from the closed sociocultural space of Soviet reality to a spiritually boundless universe. The allusions and reminiscences related to the Holy Scriptures form in Shalamov’s poetic heritage quite obvious biblical metatext, which has a motivational-shaped integrity, internal lyrical plot, and mytho-suggestive coloring of specific biographical facts and artifacts that constitute the author’s worldview. Shalamov’s apophatics of search for God under the conditions of Soviet reality determined the ways of artistic embodiment of the image of the Son of Man in all its existential complexity and multidimensionality. The object of this study covers the motivational layer of Shalamov’s poetry, containing explicit and implicit references to the biblical text rethought by the author. The biblical motifs of the poetry by Shalamov are identified through historical-genetic, hermeneutic, structural-semantic and systemic-typological methods of studying a literary text. The image of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, comprehended in the context of non-denominational Christianity, is central in Shalamov’s poetry. The article presents an analysis of the poem “Treatise on Faith” that embodies the Christological vector of Russian poetry of the 20th century, which received creative development in Shalamov’s works.https://filclass.ru/en/archive/2022/27422e/evangelie-khrista-v-poezii-v-t-shalamova-biblejskij-tekst-i-kontekst-2v. t. shalamovgospeljesus christthe biblical text in russian literaturepoetic worldview |
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| title | The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Poetry by V. T. Shalamov: The Biblical Text and Context |
| title_full | The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Poetry by V. T. Shalamov: The Biblical Text and Context |
| title_fullStr | The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Poetry by V. T. Shalamov: The Biblical Text and Context |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Poetry by V. T. Shalamov: The Biblical Text and Context |
| title_short | The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Poetry by V. T. Shalamov: The Biblical Text and Context |
| title_sort | gospel of jesus christ in the poetry by v t shalamov the biblical text and context |
| topic | v. t. shalamov gospel jesus christ the biblical text in russian literature poetic worldview |
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