Naslov
Lestnica živyh suščestv v stihotvorenii Osipa Mandel'štama Lamark
(The scale of living beings in the poem Lamarck by Osip Mandel'štam)

Autori
Benčić, Živa

Izvornik
Slavica (0583-5356) XXXI. (2001), .; 151-163

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
lestnica živyh suščestv; ierarhizacija prostranstva
(scala naturae; hierachy of space)

Sažetak
Analyzed is Mandel'štam's poetic interpretation of the evolutionary sheme by Lamarck with man as the perfect form of organic life on its top and primitive, one-celled organisms at its bottom. As opposed to many other modernist and avant-garde poets in the early 20th century such as R. M. Rilke or G. Benn, Mandel'štam perceives the descent from the top of the scale onto lower layers as a negative process resulting in only negative metamorphoses (the loss of sight and hearing, and even the very end of culture). The fact that Mandel'štam in his text Lamarck - like N. Zabolockij in many of his poems written in the same period - renewed Aristotelian evaluative hierarchy of living beings is explained by political situation in the 1930's in Russia. Shadowed by increasing totalitarianism both Mandel'štam and Zabolockij - by means of the scala naturae - paid attention to the non-historical dimension of reality with man as the "crown of creation".

Izvorni jezik
Rus

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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