| Titre | La quête mystique de Vladislav Xodasevič : essai d'interprétation de l'œuvre du dernier symboliste russe | |
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| Auteur | Emmanuel Demadre | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 71, no 3-4, 1999 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Chronique Thèses |
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| Page | 763-774 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The mystic quest of Vladislav Khodasevich : an approach to the poetry of the last Russian Symbolist
The poetry of Vladislav Xodasevič (1886-1939) has now regained the place it deserves; however the significance of this work when seen in its full chronological development raises interesting questions.
We think the main thread of his poetry is a truly mystic quest, which accounts for its complexity, its contradictions and its irregular dynamics up to the silence of his last ten years. We have studied the successive stages of Xodasevič's poetic career, starting from a corpus of early poems (1904-1906), unpublished until 1989, which shows how deeply his yearning for transcendence — for a return to the native world of the soul — was linked to a radical rejection of this world.
The failure of the initial phase of his quest gives a better understanding of the decadent character of his first book of verse, Molodosť (1908), whereas the main theme of the second, Sčastlivyj domik (1914) is an attempt at serene acceptance. However, in Putëm žerna (1920), the culminating point of his search, he finds his way to a spiritual reawakening, and even though he does not attain the direct revelation of God he had so ardently longed for at the beginning of his quest, he reaches moments of luminous plenitude when reality seems to be transfigured by reflections of eternity. But his very negative outlook on this world can be felt again in Tjaželaja lira (1922), and finally in Evropejskaja noc' (1921) — composed during the emigration — , it leads him to an inescapable feeling of imprisonment in a degraded world.
In spite of its singularity (classicism in cultural references and style, ironic distancing and an acute vision of prosaic reality), the work of Xodasevič because it is inseparable from a conception of poetry that unites the search for transcendence with poetic inspiration, appears to us as fundamentally belonging to the mystical idealism of Russian Symbolism Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_1999_num_71_3_6637 |
