Philosophical Dimensions of Literary Creativity

Abstract

The article discusses the internal unity of philosophy and literary (prosaic and poetic) creativity as the code of Russian culture. The author explains the features of the Russian literature by approaching the method of philosophizing that proceeds from the unity of the conceptual and imaginative reflections of the world as a necessary prerequisite for its adequate comprehension. The author turns to the history of philosophical reflection of this problem in literary criticism and Russian philosophy of the 19^th–20^th centuries (V.F. Savodnik, P.P. Pertsov, I.A. Ilyin, V.V. Zenkovsky, V.S. Solovyov, S.L. Frank). Special attention is paid to the “philosophypoetry” genre of the Golden Age of Russian culture, in which poetry through its metaphysics, through a system of artistic images and symbols revealed the universal human meanings of being (E.A. Baratynsky, F.I. Tyutchev, A.A. Fet, V.S. Solovyov). The author describes the transformations that took place in the semantic and figurative-symbolic field of literature in response to the challenges of the 20^th century (K.D. Balmont, A. Bely, A.A. Blok, V.Ya. Bryusov, M.A. Voloshin, F. K. Sologub, D.S. Merezhkovsky), these transformations contributed to the convergence of poetry to philosophical anthropology (A.A. Akhmatova, B.L. Pasternak, M.V. Tsvetaeva, V.T. Shalamov). The article demonstrates that even today the semantic harmony of the pictures of the world created by the philosopher and poet remains the basis of literary creativity, testifies to the inevitable complementarity of philosophical and artistic creativity as a constant of human attitude to the world, laid down in it by the nature of man – a being who thinks and feels, comprehends the world by denying or accepting it with reason and heart.