To browse Academia. Sergay This study of Boris Pasternak's "Christmas myth" aims to establish new perspectives on various aspects of Pasternak's Christian and philosophic sensibilities, as reflected in both his literary works and his biography. These include the question of Pasternak's reception of Nikolai Fedorov's Philosophy of the Common Task, the general role in Pasternak's development of his bonds with Katia Krasheninnikova and her Christian friends-the "museum girls"in the s, the prominence of Dickensian-Christian themes in early Pasternak, and Pasternak's projection of largely Berdiaevan philosophemes onto his literary idealization of the Symbolist poet Aleksandr Blok.
This idealization is presented as a kind of intersection of Pasternak's "Christmas myth" with the long record of Pasternak's intellectual and artistic transactions with Blok, i. Two distinct and related religio-philosophical sensibilities in Pasternak emerge: a "kenoticdisseminative" form of paradogmatic Christian faith, largely informed by the personalism of.
The active debates on the religious interpretation of Russian literature that took place in the late nineties and zeroes have somewhat subsided by now, which, however, does not mean that they have led to any consensus. Positions have not converged but at least have clearly surfaced. New Year and Christmas are widely represented in the world literature.
But not only the storytellers and romantics have left a description of the holidays they loved since childhood on the pages of their literary works. Poets, satirists, and realists had a hand here β quite a wide range of authors who described both the New Year holiday itself and everything that happens on Christmas. The ceremonies that took place during these holidays have a deep meaning. It has been established that Russian literature actively turned to Christmas and Christmas holidays in the nineteenth century.
For example, A. Pushkin in "Eugene Onegin" contrasted Christmas with Christmas. Tolstoy was able to subtly determine the originality of the Christmas mood in the popular understanding. The atmosphere is transmitted by writers more attractively than the Christmas one. This study examines the poems of Boris Pasternak, the famed Russian literary figure.
