Журнал «Филоlogos»

THE PHILOSOPHIZATION OF LITERATURE AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON ("ON FLYING LEAVES" BY A.A. GOLENISHCHEV-KUTUZOV)

Author: Dudina T.P.

The article discusses the book by A.A. Golenishchev-Kutuzov "On flying leaves", which occupies a special place in the literature of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. The ideas about man that capture all forms of spiritual consciousness have determined a special atmosphere of socio-cultural reality, which the writer translates using unique structural, semantic and genre means. On 104 pages with a preface and an afterword, the writer offers a form of artistic and journalistic philosophizing that has not been encountered before, in which various cultural layers, genre formations, rhythmic-intonation structures, aesthetic principles, journalistic styles actively interact. The author's intentions determine the internal associative-semantic concatenations of individual sheets, and the various structures of the pages represent the controversial writer's attitudes. The nature of the meaning formation of the text testifies to the author's appeal to discourses of various kinds and the ability to project a wide semantic space, including historical, cultural, scientific and other contexts that create conditions for polemics. Figurative and artistic elements inevitably form a context in which the philosophy of the word and the philosophy of the text change: they cease to be the only ones and determine the ambiguous interpretation of meanings, which means that they connect the reader to this polemic. The emphasized socio-historical and socio-political trend acquires an intimate confessional character in the book, since language resources containing a neutral objective assessment are replaced by metaphorical and figurative forms. The text of the book helps the reader, in addition to his own experience, to join the experience of other people. The writer confronts, rejects or accepts the ideas of A. Pushkin, Zh.-Zh. Rousseau, G. Lebon, F. Dostoevsky, L. Tolstoy, etc., forming in the reader's mind a holistic concept of man and human destiny. By aligning it with social normative requirements and attitudes, the philosophy of Golenishchev-Kutuzov in this text turns out to be broader than epistemological stereotypes and acquires a new function - communicative. The "literary" philosophizing in the book, metaphorical and polysemantic, becomes a means of communication with the world and becomes important when science is no longer sufficient.