Boris Pasternak and Vladimir Mayakovsky in Bella Akhmadulina’s lyrical system of intertextual connections
The intertextual techniques of Bella Akhmadulina is viewed in the article through the lens of the references to the poems written by Boris Pasternak and Vladimir Mayakovsky. The author examines some of Bella Akhmadulina’s creative works (namely “Snegopad”, “The February without Snow”, “The Favour of Space. March 10”) and points out the basic ways of actualisation of the poetic pretext such as usage of Boris Pasternak’s lyrical vocabulary (“snow’, “winter”, “February”), transition from landscape plane to metapoetic one in lyrical plot, preserving the invariant structure and semantics of the precedent text (e.g. dynamics of nature is transformed into poetic inspiration in the well known Boris Pasternak’s piece “February. Get ink, shed tears...” - with the forced intensity of movement in the nature transformed to creative nervousness, poet’s inspiration), explication of the most important and constant themes of Boris Pasternak’s poetry - the unity of different things and the association of private, local existence with eternal and infinite space. The “communication” of Bella Akhmadulina’s texts with Vladimir Mayakovsky’s ones is constructed in the other ways. Plots of the precedent poems in reminiscent context are reduced but Bella Akhmadulina underlines the “sygnal” (specifically “Mayakovskyian”) words which indicate the concrete pretext. As an example of such imagery the word-combination “the Duty to the Universe” is analysed (it is borrowed by Bella Akhmadulina from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Conversation with a Tax Collector about Poetry”). Therefore intertextual correlation of her creations with Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry should be viewed as poetics of semantically “pinpoint” crossings.