To the history of one failure: obituaries of S. S. Bobtov and the formation of a posthumous reputation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of obituaries about the death of the poet S. S. Bobrov. The article examines the reasons for the “forgetting” of the writer in the subsequent literary generation. Genre elements of the obituary are analyzed in detail as a toolkit that constructs literary reputation. It is concluded that at the beginning of the 19th century the informational task of the obituary text fades into the background, while it’s modeling functions in creating the posthumous image of the writer become dominant.