Authors
- Valiulis Svetlana D. in Humanities, Associate Professor
Annotation
The article states that F. Sologub's poetry transforms the symbolic model of space, origi-
nally based on the principle ofdual worlds. Having synthesized in F. Sologub's works, the ideas
of ancient Gnostics as well as the philosophic ideas of A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche and
M.Stirner, influence the poet's understanding of existence and space as its form.
In F. Sologub's poetry, differently from other symbolists, both ontological layers - the ma-
terial and the spiritual one - as "absolute identity" are joined in a third ontological layer, namely,
the creator's will, being left unnoticeable. Thus, the poet forms a new feature of antinomy as the
ontological creation of the world: Me and not-Me, demonic power as an integrated expression
of metaphysical evil. The "demonic" acts not as a separate space, but interpenetrates into the
real-life, worldly space, filling not only a person's life but his soul as well. Devil as the superior
symbol of evil and Man are bound by the unity of space. The devil-powered soul of a person
shares its divine features with Devil himself. Thus, F.Sologub's symbolic space verticality re-
duces and creates the identity: God to Devil and vice versa.
The consciousness ofa lyrical subject comprises two space spheres - secular existence (the
colorful lie ofexistence) and a different existence, which is diverse from the symbolic tran-
scendence (the eternal world ofthe dream that has turned into reality). The borders between
the two spheres in the subject's consciousness are distinct; both spaces are ontologically joined
in a third one.
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