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Name: THANATOLOGICAL MOTIVES IN RYZHY’S WORKS

Authors: N. A. Nepomnyashchikh

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

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Abstract: Thanatological motifs and the plot of speeding up towards the death are constantly repeated throughout Boris Ryzhy’s poetry. Even motifs, which are not usually related to the motif of death, such as light of a street lamp or a star, the motif of void, and some others, become the deathrelated motifs in his poems. The plot about «the poet born from death» becomes the metaplot of all his writings. This explains his irrepressible aspiration for death, persistent attempts to peep beyond the brink, to cross the border, the intonation of poetic «last will and testament» characteristic to many of his poems. The aspiration for death is realized through the universal mythological motifs of the way (usually any way, despite of its announced destination, is turned out to be leading to death), «crossing the border», and removal.

Keywords: boris ryzhy, thanatological motifs, the motif of void, motif of aspiration for death, the motif of way

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