ON THE WHOLENESS OF THE WRITER’S ARTISTIC WORLD (based on the texts by H. P. Lovecraft)

The foundations of the wholeness of H. P. Lovecraft’s artistic world are revealed in the article. On the basis of plot and motif connections between separate texts, the writer constructs a mythology that uses the specifics of archaic thinking. The core of the system is the poetic cycle “Fungi from Yuggoth”: the thematic organization and symbolism of the sonnets manifest many similarities with prose texts. The interaction of poetic and prose components is of a synthetic nature and has forms of metrized prose, prose poetry, intertextual parallelism. The components of the artistic world are combined into an anti-anthropocentric theory of the indifferent universe, developed in hybrid genre coordinates of the Gothic and science fiction.