‘You’re Loseff?’ ‘No, lifshits am I’: self-naming in Lev Loseff’s Poetry

Authors

  • Татьяна Красильникова Национальный исследовательский университет, «Высшая школа экономики», Факультет гуманитарных наук, Школа филологии, 105066 Москва, ул. Старая Басманная, д. 21/4, 0000-0002-1108-2641

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.11.15

Keywords:

author’s self-naming, “the lyrical character”, poetry interpretation

Abstract

The article is a part of a study titled “The Lyrical Character in Lev Loseff’s Poetry: Image, Name and Reflection”, concerned with three aspects: firstly, the category of “the lyrical character”, proposed to describe the author’s image in a substantial corpus of Loseff’s poems; secondly, the issue of self-naming; thirdly, the motive of the subject’s reflection in a mirror. In real life Loseff had a number of names and surnames and it is not surprising that their multiplicity found its way into his poetry. The perspective adopted in the article enables a better understanding of Loseff’s poetics as well as opens new areas for discussion.

Author Biography

  • Татьяна Красильникова, Национальный исследовательский университет, «Высшая школа экономики», Факультет гуманитарных наук, Школа филологии, 105066 Москва, ул. Старая Басманная, д. 21/4, 0000-0002-1108-2641

    Татьяна Красильникова – magister Uniwersytetu Naukowo-Badawczego „Wyższa Szkoła Ekonomii” w Moskwie, specjalność Literatura rosyjska i komparatystyka. Zainteresowania naukowe: poezja rosyjska końca XIX i końca XX w., twórczość Wieniedikta Jerofiejewa, Lwa Łosiewa, Arsenija Tarkowskiego, Konstantina Słuczewskiego.

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Published

2018-12-30

How to Cite

Красильникова, Татьяна. 2018. “‘You’re Loseff?’ ‘No, Lifshits Am I’: Self-Naming in Lev Loseff’s Poetry”. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica, no. 11 (December): 157-68. https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-9681.11.15.