Chronotope of the Sunken city of Lugansk in the Poem by Elena Zaslavskaya "Nemo".

Abstract

The chronotope in the literature creates a space for the realization of the spiritual meanings of the text. In the poem "Nemo" (2019) by the Luhansk poetess E. Zaslavskaya, the artistic space of the text is structured by the chronotope of Lugansk in 2014, which is shown as a sunken city. The archaic mythologeme of death as the sea is realized in the poem with the help of the death-sea-steppe metaphor: the submarine of the mound, feather-grass waves, the eyes of a loved one are like beacons in the darkness, smugglers are filibusters, a bus is like a wandering ship, a mobile phone is a shell, mobile networks are networks who catch a native voice, a sea of Russian words, a bubble sound, a grain of sand of a sign. The poet constructs a complex multi-layer image of a military city in the steppe, which at the same time is submerged to the bottom of the sea. The mythologeme of death as a sea, and at the same time, the archaic semantics of the sea as a transition between different worlds allows integrating in the chronotope of Lugansk a number of meanings that are important for a person of Russian culture in a situation of an existential crisis caused by the war: the theme of historical memory, love, the role of the Russian language in connection different times and broadcasts of Russian culture.