GENRE UNIQUENESS OF THE "FINAL" BOOK OF POEMS BY E. EUTUSHENKO. YEVTUSHENKO "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY GOODBYE. VERSES. POEMS" (2013)

Abstract

The article deals with the genre and problem-thematic features of the "final" book of poems by E. Yevtushenko "I Don't Know How to Say Goodbye. Verses and Poems". In the course of the analysis it is established that two genre-species forms of the "final" book of poems are developing in contemporary Russian poetry: a boundary or stage book of poems and a "testament book", built on the genre model of the "final" book of poems of the last third of the XIX century. The paper concludes that E. Yevtushenko's book of poems belongs to the second genre-species form, where an important ideological and semantic role is played by the complicated architectonics, plot-forming motifs, polygraphic means, and metaphorical title. The distinctive features of E. Yevtushenko's poetics become declarative, epatastic, strongly pronounced subjectivity of the poetic voice of the lyrical hero, closely merged with the image of the poet himself. The book demonstrates the author's view of his own fate and the fate of Russia. It actualizes the motifs of forgiveness and farewell, loss, the desire to share the most intimate things, to remember the best moments of his life, to thank his loved ones; biography is combined with a dialogical appeal to the "other".