Authors
- Kalashnikov Sergei Candidate of Philology, Docent
Annotation
The text of the ode of A.S. Pushkin “Liberty” is a complex work in which numerous intertextual plans from the works of Lomonosov, Radishchev and Kapnist are combined. But he discovers the greatest number of poetic correspondences with the texts of G.R. Derzhavin. Numerous metrics, rhythmic, strophic, and lexico-grammatical borrowings, rhyming repertoire, figurative and thematic decisions, the biblical tradition of exhorting earthly kings and the tradition of visionary poetry significantly expand the circle of precedent Derzhavin texts and are disposed to reveal the general trend of their evolution in ode Pushkin. Derzhavinsky intertext, on the one hand, acts in Pushkin’s youthful poem as a polemical background for the intertext of Radishchev’s ode “Liberty” and the European concepts of natural and positive law formulated in the treatises of J.-J. Russo “On the Social Contract” and Sh.-L. Montesquieu “On the Spirit of Laws”, and on the other, becomes an element in building his own artistic concept of the relationship between Freedom, Law and Power. It is built on a distinct hierarchy of three categorical concepts: 1) the Eternal Law, i.e. the highest moral regulation and Divine justice, the responsibility to which, in accordance with the Derzhavin model, is borne by all mortals, including the “earthly lords”; 2) “laws of powerful combination”, or a general legal norm, which must be strictly observed by people endowed with power; 3) “autocracy”, i. e. the autocratic will of an individual, based on his arbitrary, inconsistent with the highest moral regulations and legal norm, desires.
How to link insert
Kalashnikov, S. . (2023). DERZHAVIN’S PRETEXTS IN THE STRUCTURE OF A.S. PUSHKIN’S ODE “LIBERTY” Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", Russian and comparative studies, 156–178. https://doi.org/10.25688/2619-0656.2023.11.10
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