Egy Gogol-szöveghely Puskin-hivatkozásáról (A démon című költemény szerepe Az arcképben)

Abstract

This article examines the function of an allusion to Pushkin’s poem The Demon in Gogol’s The Portrait. It reveals that the Pushkin intertext shows special features in Gogol’s short story, since it is not primarily alongside thematic definitions or motif formulations that the intertext evolves, but much more significantly, at a metatextual level. This meaning layer is fairly complex, as it develops the sense of a kind of art definition in two major directions: taking into account the relationship of life to art, and the ever developing artistic language which never ceases to recreate itself. As a result of a survey of the semantic processes constructing the metapoetic reading of Gogol’s The Portrait, the conclusion is drawn that Pushkin’s The Demon and Gogol’s demon(s) semantically incorporate a similarly wide range of meaning, which can be regarded as the semantic code of the genesis of certain texts of Pushkin and Gogol.

Študija obravnava vlogo Puškinove pesmi Demon v Gogoljevi pripovedki Portret. Njena intertekstualna analiza ne temelji na temah in metodah, ampak na odkrivanju misli, ki omogočajo vpogled v Gogoljevo razmišljanje o umetniškem upodabljanju in o odnosu med življenjem/stvarnostjo in umetnostjo. Gogoljevo razmišljanje o umetnosti je značilno tudi za samo besedilo Portret, tako se medbesedilna analiza v študiji osredotoča predvsem na metapoetično razumevanje pripovedke. Hkrati pa je to le del razumevanja, ki želi metabesedilnost pripovedke razkriti s pomočjo analize besedila, povezanega z motivom demona v Portretu. Pristop, predstavljen v študiji, je prispevek k ponovni oceni gogoljevskega razmišljanja o hudičevskem/ Demonskem.