THE SYNERGY OF BOB DYLAN'S REALITIES

Abstract

The figure of poet-intellectual and musician-thinker Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, has been systematically attracting the attention of researchers from different countries since the 1960s. Today, a powerful corpus of literary, linguistic, artistic, and cultural explorations has been formed, which examines various aspects of Bob Dylan’s work. At the same time, there are certain research problems, which are developed periodically and are revealed in fragments. One of these research problems is that the issues related to Dylan’s creative activity are insufficiently researched. This article analyzes the phenomenon of the prominent poet and musician, taken in a global dimension. This work considers the main components that made up the “secret formula” of Bob Dylan’s socio-spiritual success. In particular, the reality of the actual society, relayed by the figure and texts of the artist, is allocated firstly in the 1960s. The reality of the complexities of Bob Dylan’s own nature, represented by numerous socio-cultural manifestations of the poet-musician, is highlighted. The reality of historical values, embossed by Bob Dylan’s intellectual dynamics, is singled out and considered in detail. The reality of the cultural paradigm, within which his artistic development has been going on for decades, is also outlined.