BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE BODY: THE PROBLEM OF ‘INNER EMIGRATION’ IN VASYL STUS’S POETRY
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2018, Vol 316, Issue 304
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of corporal discourse in Vasyl Stus‟s poetry. This famous writer-dissident used different writing practices as a way of self-reflection and for keeping his own identification reference points under the conditions of total repressive strain during his imprisonment and expulsion. The discursive analysis of the most important for Vasyl Stus‟s artistic world somatic markers such as a shout, pain, blood, a throat, palms, smells, etc. as well as the existential motifs of loneliness, death, estrangement, gives the reason to state that corporal feelings are the most important ontological condition of the poet‟s comprehension of the processes of self-awareness and experiencing his own existence in the world. The existential conflict, characteristic of V. Stus‟s fictional world outlook in general, greatly aggravates in the situation of constant supervision and control (imprisonment, expulsion, strict regime camps). The motif of the break between corporal and spiritual become more and more powerful. The poet perceives the body and the soul not as belonging to the same subject but as estranged from each other and transmitted (migrated) beyond the boundaries of the transcendental whole „Self‟. As a result, the real physical world where the artist stays becomes a space of no-presence. Instead if it, the motif of the sleep as a recollection-delirium which returns the sleeper the feelings kept in the emotional memory of the body becomes more actualized. In fact, this conscious „exit inside‟ turns out to be a way of „inner emigration‟ which makes the poet‟s existence in unacceptable conditions possible. So, he exists beyond the boundaries of his own physical body but within the force-field of his mental body. The discourse of emigration in V. Stus‟s poetic reflections is also realized through the motifs of motherland lost, which turns into a painful symbolic „space without a place‟, of the problem of being uprooted and the opposition of individual and national memory.
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N. Lebedyntseva
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