Motifs and images of the vocal cycle of F. Schubert's «Winterreise» in the context of the autobiographical mythology of Andrei Bely

Abstract

The article examines the  functional role of  the  “other’s” word in  Andrei Bely’s prose of the post-revolutionary period. Schubert’s vocal cycle Winterreise transforms significantly in the author’s autobiographical mythology. Both the motif of winter wandering and the  imagery of  the  cycle (the  wanderer, wandering, the  raven), correlate with the  typology of  the  initiation myth and structure the  semantics of the narrative.