Pushkin studies Department

Статья представляет собой подробный анализ стихотворения А. С. Пушкина "Аквилон" в историко-литературном контексте. Ставя под сомнение традиционные автобиографические трактовки произведения, автор исследует жанровую природу текста, выявляет его предполагаемые литературные источники и предлагает принципиально новую его интерпретацию.

The article represents an elaborated analysis of Pushkin's 'Aquilon' (1824) in its historical and literary context/ Casting doubt on the traditional autobiographical readings of the poem, te author investigates its genre nature, reveals its probable literary sources and offers a radically new interpretation.

The aricle is devoted to one of the most enigmatic details of Pushkin’s Grobovshchik namely, «a plump Amour with an inverted torch». The author investigates its variable semantic structures and a range of its narrative potentials determined by such contexts as a) classical allegorical tradition, b) patterns of the anecdote genre, c) elegiac language, and d) some elements of funeral practice.