Поэтическая классика в ракурсе современности: образ "дьявольского смеха " в поэмах А. Т. Твардовского

Abstract

Relying on Bakhtin's concept of the "liberating laughter" and Sergei Averintsev's notion of "the devil's laughter," the article undertakes an attempt (as called 264 forth under the present conditions of humanist consciousness) to bring to light a peculiar destructive and provocative form of laughter in Tvardovsky's poetic universe. It would seem that such a mode of laughter could not exist in Tvardovsky's poetry. Yet, focusing on Tvardovsky's long poems, the author discovers that the image of "devilish laughter ", though a rare, "extreme" occurrence in the poet's world, is nevertheless present and significant.