Прекрасное и безобразное в лирике М. Степановой (на материале книги стихов Счастье)

Abstract

The dialectics of the beautiful and ugly in the book of poems of M.Stepanova Happiness has been considered in the article. Both categories have been comprehended in their etymological meaning and according to it «the ugly» is the image-less, i.e. the absence of an image, form, idea, whereas «the beautiful» is the most beautiful – it becomes the most beautiful when it embodies the unity of the idea and form, the institutionalization of sense. The correlation of the ugly and beautiful in the book of poems is determined by the author’s comprehension of the mental crisis which characterized the social consciousness in the post-Soviet era. The stay in the «transition point» forms the appropriate chronotope in the poems of M.Stepanova – the chronotope of the fine line between the past and the present, between life and death. The penetrability of these worlds introduces some mystical colouring to the poems, creates either the visionary reality or the reality of the altered consciousness. Together with the imperceptible transfers from the voice of the impersonal narrator to the voice of the character or together with the dialogue of the individuals who don’t understand each other because they speak different languages (the language of the conventionally healthy mind and twisted mind), such chronotope creates the atmosphere of the awful, incomprehensible and, therefore, frightening world. The tradition of the romantic novel which was rethought helps M.Stepanova to express collective phobias created by the historic experience, to reconstruct the collective unconsciousness. The composition of the book of poems is the evidence of the aesthetical overcoming of the chaos of the daily life and chaos of consciousness through the creation. The central subject of the book of poems is the meta morphosis of the consciousness, the agonizing discovery of the form as the beginning of the transfer from the ugly to the beautiful.