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Chen F. Real Geographical Loci and their Meaning in K. K. Sluchevsky's Cycle "Murmansk Echoes" // Litera. 2023. № 3. P. 116-122. DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2023.3.39964 EDN: LOITTU URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=39964

Real Geographical Loci and their Meaning in K. K. Sluchevsky's Cycle "Murmansk Echoes"

Chen' Fangming

PhD in Philology

Postgraduate, Department of the History of Russian Literature, Lomonosov Moscow State Universit

119991, Russia, Moscow region, Moscow, Leninskie Gory str.,1, 918

17854222348@163.com

DOI:

10.25136/2409-8698.2023.3.39964

EDN:

LOITTU

Received:

13-03-2023

Published:

04-04-2023

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of real geographical loci in the poem cycle "Murmansk echoes", written by the poet-pre-symbolist K. K. Sluchevsky in 1888 under the impression of a trip to the Murmansk region. The conducted research using historical, functional and comparative methods allows us to comprehend the nature of Sluchevsky's literary work and the philosophical ideas embedded in his poetry. The author of the article pays special attention to the study of landscapes, which are an expression of emotions and personal feelings of K. K. Sluchevsky, reflecting the concept of the poet's life and his philosophy; consideration of such an aspect of the topic as Sluchevsky's use of real loci to expand time and space. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the work for the first time studied the influence of real geographical loci on the poetry of K. K. Sluchevsky, the depiction of artistic images in northern Russia, the life and customs of local pomors, investigated the changes in perspective in the real locus and the expansion of time, revealed the general "mythologeme" of the space of the real locus. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the geographical locus allows the poet not only to convey impressions about what he saw, but also to open his inner life, and most importantly, to recreate a holistic picture of the universe through concrete and small things.

Keywords:

poetry, Konstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky, lyrical cycle, Murmansk echoes, real geographical loci, sea, Murmansk, space, time, images
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This is what allows Sluchevsky in his lyrical cycle "Murmansk Echoes" not just to capture real geographical loci, to write a series of ordinary landscape poems-sketches, but to create a truly epic picture of people's lives within the spatial boundaries of mountains and sea, and there is no limited time frame for this life – it is eternal like the mountains and the sea themselves ("Heaven and the sea are a frame, / The same everything, from year to year")^{[8, p.128]}. It is not for nothing that eternity and derivatives of this word are repeatedly mentioned in the cycle: "The edge of eternal snows", "Over an eternally stormy cold wave", "Here eternity is in the trends of harsh beauty" ^{[8, p. 132]}. The living sea constantly washes away the traces of the past, relentlessly updates and corrects life. Time in this "geographical locus" is invariable, even if everything around a person is constantly changing. Impressionistic, momentary impressions dissolve into eternity, the symbols of which are the eternal mountains and the sea of Murmansk. And in such a transformation of real geographical loci lies the peculiarity of Sluchevsky's philosophically oriented poetic thinking. That is why, analyzing the Sluchevsky cycle, it is more correct to speak not about the correlation of individual poetic images and the depiction of certain real geographical loci, but about the worldview conveyed through images fused into a single whole. Thus, the locus of natural space allows the poet not only to convey impressions about what he saw and tell about what he experienced, but also to open his inner life, and most importantly, to recreate a holistic picture of the universe through concrete and small things.

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Unfortunately, the work of K.K. Sluchevsky rarely becomes the subject of scientific study and, although it deserves a deep monographic study, it is mentioned more often in reviews of the main trends in the development of Russian lyrics in the second half of the XIX century. Meanwhile, certain aspects of the poet's lyrical style and the originality of his literary criticism were nevertheless highlighted in the works of E.A. Tahogodi, A.Y. Ippolitova, V.G. Gavrilova, E.G. Domogatskaya, S.L. Slobodnyuk, etc. The author of the article "Real geographical loci and their meaning in the cycle of K.K. Sluchevsky "Murmansk echoes" also contributes to the study of K.K. Sluchevsky's work. He found his own perspective on the study of the poet's lyrics, showed how he perceives the real geographical space and reflects it in a lyrical work. The second significant point is the focus of the author's attention on the cycle "Murmansk Echoes"; the analysis of the motifs that bind a number of works into artistic unity makes it possible to clarify the principles of cyclization in Sluchevsky's work, which is important, since the tendency to create cycles is typical for that era. The relevance of the article is also due to the fact that it deals with local texts of Russian literature. This problem is currently being actively developed on the basis of the work of various authors: the mechanism of their generation is being studied, the main markers of specific local texts and their motivic structure are being identified. The analysis of the cycle "Murmansk Echoes" from the point of view of reflecting specific geographical and ethnographic realities in it allows us to highlight one of the stages in the creation of the Murmansk text in Russian literature, and also clarifies some features of K. Sluchevsky's poetics. The article reveals the real-biographical basis for the creation of the cycle, comments on its name, for which etymological information is used, spatial images are considered, and the specifics of time are shown. The article is a complete and complete study, which presents an interesting analysis of Sluchevsky's cycle "Murmansk Echoes". It successfully combines biographical, historical, cultural, and structural research methods. The conclusion reached by the author of the article: "Sluchevsky in his lyrical cycle "Murmansk Echoes" does not just capture real geographical loci, write a series of ordinary landscape poems, sketches, but create a truly epic picture of people's lives within the spatial boundaries of mountains and the sea, and there is no limited time frame for this life - it is eternal as the mountains and the sea themselves," is justified and motivated. It naturally follows from the whole course of reasoning, logically generalizes and completes them. The article has a scientific style. It is informative and will be of interest not only to specialists, but also to a wide range of readers. Thus, the article "Real geographical loci and their meaning in the cycle of K. K. Sluchevsky "Murmansk echoes"" is recommended for publication in the journal "Litera".

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