The dead body of/in Gennady Gor’s poetry

Abstract

This paper discusses the phenomenon of the corporeal, which in Gennady Gor?s poems represents the main instrument of understanding the absurd, extremely dehumanized, apocalyptic anti-world. The lyric hero, as sort of a chronicler, records the disintegration of the world-consciousness precisely through the disintegration of the body: his body, the body of people closest to him, as well as the body of nature, with which man identifies, and which is further manifested in the disintegration of language, the body of the text. Looking through the prism of the theme of death and violence, the aspects of the transformation of the dead body are discussed comprehensively: the motif sequence body - tree - plank, fragmentation of the body, body secretions (motif of blood, sweat, tears), anthropophagy and disappearance. The phenomenon of the corporeal in the Gor?s poems is illuminated from the angle of the locus - as a return to St. Peterburg?s myth and therefore as an approach to St. Peterburg?s text in Russian literature.