The outraged reader, or about the mortal subtext of «Eugene Onegin»

Dudareva M.

The article attempts to revise the last stanzas of the novel in verses by A. S. Pushkin “Eugene Onegin” in the mortal context of world culture. Some scholars, literary critics and cultural scientists insist that Tatyana dies at the end of the novel. We develop this hypothesis by referring to the Pushkin artistic formula of the “magic crystal” and the state of sleep, which allow us to raise the question of the use of aura and areret lighting in a work. The Schlegel brothers also wrote about this artistic device of the play of light and shadow, near and far lighting of objects, with lectures of which, by antiquity, Pushkin was familiar. Turning to two dreams in the novel (by Tatyana and the author) and drawing parallels with the folkloric genre of fading allows us to take a different look at the result of Tatyana’s path and reconstruct the mortal subtext.

Keywords:Russian traditional culture, image, dream, literature, mortal subtext, “another kingdom”.