Korovashko Alexey Valerievich – Doctor in Philology, Head of the Department of Russian literature at the Institute of Philology and Journalism of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod
The article examines Pushkin’s motifs and subtexts in the lyric poetry of Mikhail Iosifovich Lopatto (1892–1981), a poet and prose writer who commenced his literary career before the revolution (his inaugural collection Excess was published in 1916 in Petrograd), but after leaving Russia in 1920 he published his works exclusively in France and Italy. The intertextual dialogue with Pushkin’s poetic heritage is discernible in five principal forms: explicit reference to the classic’s poems, eliminating any difficulty in their identification; their partial (“metonymic”) invocation and reproduction, assuming reader’s foundational knowledge of the history of Russian poetry; allusions to Pushkin’s works, devoid of direct quotations, yet, due to its easily recognizable imagery, unambiguously interpreted as products of some sort of a dialogue in absentia with them; the employment of rhythmic-syntactic formulas tracing back to Pushkin’s texts and preserving partial lexical identity with their source; hypothetically identifiable allusions which existence is proved not so much by discursive judgments as by intuitive assumptions.
A.S. Pushkin; M.I. Lopatto; intertextual dialogue; Pushkin’s motifs; continuations of Pushkin’s works.