“RUSTLING VICIOUS SYMPHONIES”: FLESH-EROTIC AND RELIGIOUS IN THE POETRY OF SERGEI ALYMOV

Abstract

The article explores the theme of carnal love and eroticism in the work of the original representative of Far Eastern modernist poetry, prose writer, essayist, journalist Sergei Yakovlevich Alymov (1892–1948). The material for the study is poetic works from the writer’s collection “The Kiosk of Tenderness” (Harbin, 1920). As a result of the study, the researcher comes to the conclusion: in representing the stated topic, the concepts of eroticism and sexuality, put forward by the culture and philosophy of the Silver Age and updated views of the revolutionary era, had a significant impact on the poet. A significant role in this is played by installations of symbolists, futurists and imaginists, including immoral and godless (religious-carnal references, aestheticization of vice, motives of sweetness, motives for the inseparability of holiness and fornication, deification of sinful, etc.). At the same time, other types of art, for example, modernist painting and graphics, are actively and with a special meaning, involved in the poetic experiments of S. Alymov. Bodily and spiritual principles in the poetry of S. Alymov harmoniously unite.