Aesthetics and Ethics in the senior symbolists’ works (on the example of D.S. Merezhkovsky and V.Y. Bryusov)

http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/PhS.3-16.051

Balikova Marry S.,

Postgraduate student of

the Department of Modern Russian literature

and contemporary literary process Faculty of Philology

Lomonosov Moscow State University

E-mail: masha.balickova@yandex.ru

The item of correlation of aesthetics and ethics in the senior symbolists’ works is investigated in the article, similarities and dissimilarities between Merezhkovsky’s and Briusov’s interpretation of the two spheres are marked out.

Keywords: Merezhkovsky, Briusov, symbolism, art, aesthetics, ethics.

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