«Simple» («Non-Sstyle») Word in the Metarealism of the Russian Diaspora: Poetics of Dmitry Dragilev (Berlin)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to comprehend the «simple word» in metarealistic poetics. The material is the lyrics of Dmitry Dragilev (the poet was born in1970 in Riga, lives in Berlin). The native (Russian) language of a Russian author who is abroad absorbs the numerous realities of the actuality surrounding the poet. The author of the article relies on the structural-descriptive method. A «simple» («non-style») word in Dragilev’s metarealistic poetics reacts sharply to a context enriched with metaphors, often developing into a metaphor, acquiring a different meaning that does not belong to it, sometimes without losing its direct meaning. A «simple» word is interesting to the poet and its sound shell, goes beyond the limits of the language game, in rare cases it grows into a metametaphor poem. Being slang or vernacular, the «simple» word loses its stylistic humiliation and is rapidly enriched due to the context. German, Latvian, English words by Dragilev not only participate in the creation of macaronicisms, but also expand the metaphorical space of the poem to polylingual infinity. The macaronicism verses of the Berlin poet go beyond the limits of metarealistic poetics, and in them the potential burlesque nature of the «simple» word is preserved and developed. The «non-style» word is imperceptible in metarealistic poetics, because it quickly merges with its other elements, becoming like them.