LOVE MYTH AS THE ONE OF THE CENTRAL CHRONOTOPE IN THE ARSENY TARKOVSKY’S POETIC WORLD

Abstract

. The aim of the article is to explore peculiarities of the poetic world of A. Tarkovsky, one of the most important Russian poets of the XX century within one poetic complex, and also to select key images, affording to perceive selected works of art as the whole entity. The research material is a scattered cycle of poems by A. Tarkovsky, dedicated to the poet’s beloved Maria Gustavovna Falts. The principle of forming the conditional cycle and the chronotope becomes uniting all the poems included the theme of love lost and also repeated images, forming the poetical reality around the characters. First of all, these are images of a bird, butterfly and lilac. Using this story, the poet lays the foundation for one of the key conceptions of the poetical world – the conception of paradise found and lost. The chronotope of the love myth becomes an absolute that contains references to the basic ideas and worldviews of the poetic worldview of Arseny Tarkovsky.