From “Technique” to “Music of Words”: Poetic Experiments by E. I. Zamyatin

Aim. To identify the ideological-semantic and constructive-stylistic features of the organization of poetic texts by E. I. Zamyatin in the context of the aesthetic theory developed by the writer in his “Lectures on the Technique of Fiction”; to carry out a system-holistic description of poetic experiments as an integral part of the art world of E. I. Zamyatin.
Methodology. The article presents an analysis of three poems by E. I. Zamyatin, with an intimate and personal nature and addressed to L. N. Usova and R. V. Ruhr. With the help of structural-typological, historical-cultural and historical-genetic methods of scientific research of the artistic text, the poetics of poems by E. I. Zamyatin are considered, their motive-shaped structure and semantic-stylistic organization are determined.
Results. Substantial-semantic and formal-constructive dominants in the poems of E. I. Zamyatin were established at the level of subject-object relations that organize the internal and external space of poetic texts; aesthetic and philosophical and ontological parameters were discovered that allow us to verify the poetic experiments of E. I. Zamyatin as manifestations of the poetic culture of the Silver Age, the ideological and aesthetic proximity of the novel “We” author’s poems to acmeism as an art movement of the beginning of the twentieth century was revealed.
Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the study of the creative heritage of E. I. Zamyatin, clarify the role and place in it of the poetic experiments of the writer, which are a specific implementation of the aesthetic concept of neorealism.

1. Altabaeva E. V. [Zamyatin's Text: Language and Concept Sphere (Towards Research Methodology)]. In: Literaturovedenie na sovremennom etape: Teoriya. Istoriya literatury. Tvorcheskie individual’nosti: materialy Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa literaturovedov [Literary Studies at the Stage: Theory. History of Literature. Creative Individuals: Materials of the International Congress of Literary Critics]. Tambov, Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavina Publ., 2009, pp. 505–509.

2. Balmont K. D. Poeziya kak volshebstvo [Poetry as Magic]. Moscow, RIPOL klassik Publ., 2020. 206 p.

3. Wang Hongyuan. [Yevgeny Zamyatin’s “Impressionism”: Vision or Recognition?]. In: Uchyonye zapiski Novgorodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Memoirs of NovSU], 2021, no. 2 (35), pp. 228–231.

4. Vorobyova S. Yu. [Aesthetic Credo of E. Zamyatin: Concept of the Writer in the Context of the Crisis Era]. In: Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 8: Literaturovedenie, zhurnalistika [Bulletin of Volgograd State University. Series 8: Literary Criticism, Journalism], 2020, no. 1 (19), pp. 45–58.

5. Zhilyakov S. V. [Memonic Motive in the “Album Lyrics” of the First Half of the XIX Century (On the Example of the Works of E. A. Baratynsky)]. In: Filologos [Philologos], 2021, no. 1 (48), pp. 26–32.

6. Zimina N. Yu. [On the Process of Formation of Russian Ornamental Prose]. In: Aktual’nye voprosy filologicheskih issledovanij: materialy Mezhdunarodnoj nauchno-prakticheskoj konferencii, posvyashchyonnoj 90-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya V. Shukshina [Current Issues of Philological Research: Materials of the International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of V. Shukshin]. Krasnodar, Yug Publ., 2019, pp. 31–34.

7. Koltsova N. Z. Tvorchestvo E. Zamyatina: Problemy poetiki [Creativity of E. Zamyatin: Problems of Poetics]. Moscow, YASK Publ., 2019. 176 p.

8. Komlik N. N. Tvorcheskoe nasledie E. I. Zamyatina v kontekste tradicij russkoj narodnoj kul’tury [Creative Heritage of E. I. Zamyatin in the Context of the Traditions of Russian Folk Culture]. Elec, EGPI Publ., 2000. 265 p.

9. Kurochkina A. V. [Ye. Zamyatin’s Socio-Political Views]. In: Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki [Philology. Theory & Practice], 2023, vol. 16, iss. 1, pp. 41–47.

10. Losev A. F. Forma – Stil’ – Vyrazhenie [Form – Style – Expression]. Moscow, Mysl’ Publ., 1995. 944 p.

11. Orlitsky Yu. B. [Overcoming the “Metric Standard”]. In: E. I. Zamyatin: Lichnost’ i tvorchestvo pisatelya v ocenkah otechestvennyh i zarubezhnyh issledovatelej [E. I. Zamyatin: The Personality and Creativity of the Writer in the Assessments of Domestic and Foreign Researchers]. St. Petersburg, RHGA Publ., 2015, pp. 361–373.

12. Polyakova L. V. [Zamyatin as a Classic of Russian Literature. On the Problem of the Relationship between “Literary Series”]. In: Tvorcheskoe nasledie Evgeniya Zamyatina: vzglyad iz segodnya. Nauchnye doklady, stat’i, ocherki, zametki, tezisy. Kn. HII [Creative Heritage of Evgeniy Zamyatin: A View from Today. Scientific Reports, Articles, Essays, Notes, Theses. Book XII]. Tambov, Tambov State University named after G. R. Derzhavina Publ., 2004, pp. 7–27.

13. Tolmachyova O. V. Sovremennoe otechestvennoe zamyatinovedenie: itogi i perspektivy: avtoref.... dis. kand. filol. nauk [Modern Domestic Zamyatin science: Results and Prospects: Abstract of Cand. Sci. Thesis in Philological Sciences]. Tambov, 2012. 25 p.

14. Khamyamova M. A. [Aesthetics E. I. Zamyatin and the Acmeist Paradigm of Creativity]. In: Russkaya literatura v XX veke: imena, problemy, kul’turnyj dialog. Vyp. 6. Formy samorefleksii literatury XX veka: metateksty i metatekstovye struktury [Russian Literature in the Twentieth Century: Names, Problems, Cultural Dialogue. Vol. 6. Forms of Self-Reflection in Twentieth-Century Literature: Metatexts and Metatextual Structures]. Tomsk, Tomsk University Publ., 2004, pp. 23–55.

15. Yudaykina E. V. [The Genre of Prose Poems in the Works of E. I. Zamyatin]. In: Vestnik Tambovskogo universiteta. Seriya: Gumanitarnye nauki [Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities], 2001, no. 3–3 (21), pp. 78.