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Verbal prefix vy- in modern russian language : study of the semantic and syntactic features The results of this study confirms the hypothesis based on D. Paillard's approach according to which the invariant is situated on the functional and not on the semantic level, unlike the approaches consisting in the search for the invariant on the levels of concrete meanings (particularly in the spatial meaning). Не suggests describing the verbal prefixes as 'relators' (in terms of a 'scenario'). The vy- prefix establishes a relation between X ('repéré') et Y ('repère'). In the statements containing the verbs with vy-, the prefix has the role of the predicative, as it expresses the Xvy-Y2 'evenť: X appears to be in Y2 (space or state which belongs to Y domain divided in two zones Yl and Y2, with a boundary between them). Y2's characteristics are determined in relation to Yl's characteristics: Yl and Y2 are in a binary opposition. Y2 is not only a complementary set to Yl, but it also has its own status, as the division into Yl and Y2 exists prior to the 'intervention' of the vy- prefix. The study of a large range of werbs with vy- prefix in their contexts allowed to characterize Yl and Y2 and to establish the functioning regularities of the prefix, verb stem and context for each group of verbs singled out on the basis of formal criteria derived by semantic and syntactic analysis of the verbs with vy- prefix in the main types of situations arising from the nature of Y and the boundary separating Yl and Y2. Comparison, allowing for the semantics and syntax of the direct objects and/or adverbal modifiers of verbs with vy- prefix and verbs formed from the same stems with other prefixes (s-, po-, iz-) and considered to be 'synonyms', leads to the statement that this 'synonymy' doesn't stand on the level of the prefixes, or isolated prefixal verbs, but in certain contexts on the level of the prefixal verbs.

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