About the Poetics of Sergey Rafalsky

Abstract

In the article the author proves that the habit of researching the poetry by Sergey Rafalsky in the traditions of the Prague group «Skete of Poets» needs revising, because the poet emphasized his disagreements with the creative practice of that group and its leader A. Bem repeatedly. The author identifies some features, that indicate how the artistic credo of the «Paris note» influenced the poetics by Rafalsky, and notices the specificity, that allows us to speak about Rafalsky’s succession to G. Ivanov and G. Adamovich. The author analyses the poems, in which Rafalsky demonstrates implicitly his solidarity with the criteria of the genuine poetry in G. Adamovich’s comprehension and attempts to reconstruct intonations of conversational natural speech as adequately as possible, with its fragmentariness, understatement and incomplete information. All these features were intrinsic to the poets of the «Paris note». The author proves that the poems of Rafalsky’s late period ought to be analysed in the context of the creative quests of the poets of Russian Montparnasse, although the influence of the avantgarde poetics is still strong in them. One of the reasons of such esemblance is an intonation dominant of the poetry of Rafalsky, who makes the most of Lermontov's and Blok's legacy in this aspect. Both of these poets were the gold standard for the poets of the «Paris note», as well as G. Ivanov