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Takho-Godi Elena A.,
DSc in Philology,
Professor at the Department of History of Russian Literature
Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Leading Research Fellow
A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
e-mail: takho-godi.elena@yandex.ru
The article raises the issue of the author’s practice of D.S. Merezhkovsky and his axiological approaches as a critic and thinker during the creating programmatic or polemical texts directly related to discussions, which are connected with the paths of further development of Russian literature, its aesthetic, social and religious guidelines. Using the example of two texts by Merezhkovsky — the brochures “On the Causes of the Decline and New Trends in Modern Russian Literature” (1893) and “Belinsky’s Testament: Religiosity and the Sociality of the Russian Intelligentsia” (1915) — their implicit connection with the discussions about the report of Vl. Solovyov “On the Causes of the Decline of the Medieval Worldview” of 1891 and the dispute around the legacy of V.G. Belinsky, provoked in the mid-1910s by speech of Yu.I. Aikhenvald, are shown. The conducted analysis allows us to present the position of Merezhkovsky in more detail, as well as the influence of personal relations with the main participants in these discussions. It is concluded, that for the study of the texts of Merezhkovsky and their axiological intention those polemics, in which he, at first glance, did not take direct part and about which his ego documents are therefore ‘keep silent’, are important, and without taking into account which it is impossible to exhaustively argue with whom and why their author is in solidarity. Such ‘figures of silence’ are not only an individual feature of the writer’s creative practice, but are generally inherent in the culture of the ‘Silver Age’ and its representatives.
Keywords: Russian literature, literary criticism, publicism, V.G. Belinsky, V.S. Soloviev, V.V. Rozanov, D.S. Merezhkovsky, Yu.I. Aikhenvald, ‘figures of silence’
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