“TREES SWING WITHOUT WIND”: A RECEPTIVE AND INTERTEXTUAL GESTURE BY DENIS TRETYAKOV (“THE CHURCH OF CHILDHOOD”)

Abstract

The article is based on the hypothesis of Yu. Kristeva on gesture as a semiotic text. The text of Denis Tretyakov’s song “Trees (Trees swing without wind)” is considered as a receptive and intertextual gesture. Оbservations made in this article offer the key to this text / gesture: step by step reconstruction of its creative communication with fragments of religious and mystical teachings (Kabbalah, Crowlianism, etc.), literary and journalistic works (“Apollo Bezobrazov” by B. Poplavsky, “Trees took the form of wind” by W.S. Burroughs). As a result, it is established that all the problematic and thematic fields and connections of the text are transferred to the cosmic sphere, and this allows its author to create a universal ontological model of the world.