PEER GYNT" BY HENRIK IBSEN ON "NORTHERN SYMPHONY" BY ANDREY BELY
The article dwells on the character of the impact of the dramatic poem "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen on "Northern Symphony" by Andrey Bely. The analysis is based on Bely''s articles concerning the Norwegian playwright''s oeuvre of and on the comparison the two works'' systems of images, which are claimed to be parallel. However, Bely turns the "real" layer of the dramatic poem into the "symbolic" one of the symphony.