«If Taken by our Enemies…» by O. E. Mandelstam: Verses on Reason and Madness
- Authors: Surat I.Z.1
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Affiliations:
- А. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 2 (2024)
- Pages: 200-210
- Section: Публикации и сообщения
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/0131-6095/article/view/259343
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2024-2-200-210
- ID: 259343
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Abstract
The article analyses Osip Mandelstam’s poem «If Taken by our Enemies…» (1937), it discusses the background of the text and the dubia ending of the poem that N. Mandelstam insisted on. The interpretation of the poem is based on the analysis of its lexical and grammatical structure, syntactic and subject-object architecture. Biographical context is included into the research and taken into account. A comparison with Pushkin’s «Oh, Save me God from Going Mad…» as the precedential text suggests a hidden madness theme and yet another, implicit semantical layer of this poem.
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About the authors
Irina Z. Surat
А. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: i-surat@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5933-0491
Leading Researcher
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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