Author:
Arzamazov Alexey Andreevich
Abstract
The article comprehensively examines the poetry of the classic of Mansi literature Andrei Tarkhanov. The place of the national literature in the system of the vast interliterary community of the peoples of the circumpolar zone is determined, the genetic connection of the Mansi artistic tradition with mythological ideas and folklore is emphasized. The most common, creatively significant themes and problems are identified: a great author’s interest in the themes of time, history, cultural and civilizational identity of Russia is shown, the individual author’s artistic panorama of the post-Soviet era is analyzed, the socio-psychological contexts of the experience of the author / lyrical subject of modernity are considered. The plots of Tarkhanov’s appeal to Russian literature are studied, attention is paid to the study of the personological aspect. The focus of the reading falls on the poet’s numerous attempts to comprehend Christian narratives in poetry, to delve into the axiology and ritual practices of Orthodoxy. When we interpret the text corpus of the Mansi poet, we take into account his linguistic choice, which significantly reduces the associative and meaningful contexts with “his” Mansi literature. In general, the realities and paradoxes of A. Tarkhanov’s artistic worldview are identified, which are manifested at the figurative-symbolic level and in the author’s choice of themes, situations of poetic actualization and aesthetic guidelines. Andrei Tarkhanov was less a Mansi poet in his inner nature than the legendary Yuvan Shestalov. It seems that he wanted to break out of the Mansi “vicious circle” and at the same time understood that a creative break with his roots, ethnocultural origins would significantly affect the quality and originality of his texts.He constantly had to balance between the Russian and Mansi worlds, artistic mentality.