Literary space as a structure-forming category in the artistic world of D. Kharms

Annotation

The article considers space as a literary category in the artistic world of D. Kharms. This category is presented as having stable characteristics: the top and bottom are distinguished in space, which remain constant in their location relative to each other. The immutability of this category can be called exceptional in the poetic world of the author, since the objects existing in his world are as unstable as possible, which is due to the general attitude towards the absurd in the work of D. Kharms. At the same time, the variability of objects is to some extent related to the category of space, it is the movement in it that causes the metamorphosis of objects. There is a tendency for objects to increase in their upward direction and decrease in their downward movement. Objects do not just increase or decrease, but can fundamentally change their appearance. At the same time, objects can exist simultaneously in different places of space: arriving in another part of space, an object may not disappear from its previous place. Based on this, it is suggested that the chaotic nature of the artistic world of D. Kharms can be interpreted as the simultaneous existence of objects in different forms at different points in space.

Keywords

D. Harms, OBERIU, space, absurdity, properties of objects, variability, stability.

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This study was supported by grant No. 24–28–01177 from the Russian Science Foundation, https://rscf.ru/project/24–28–01177/; the Dostoevsky Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy