Поэтический сборник «Звукоподобие» и рецепция творчества К.К. Вагинова во второй половине ХХ в.

Литературный факт. 2025. № 2(36). С. 274–297.

Pakhomova A.

The article examines the particularities of the reception of Konstantin

Vaginov’s last collection of poems Zvukopodobie in the 1960s–1990s. Since the book

of poems was not completed during the author’s lifetime, it remained unknown to the

general reader and researcher for many years. It was distributed in lists and copies

made by the author’s widow, Aleksandra Vaginova, as well as by the author’s friends

and acquaintances. This created a situation where the main text of the collection

does not exist, which is confirmed by the list of sources with a brief characterization

given in the article. The discovery of Zvukopodobie in the 1960s was significant

both for readers familiarizing themselves with the work of the forgotten poet and for

researchers who used the collection to legitimize Vaginov in the history of Soviet

literature. The article identifies two main scenarios of such legitimization. The first,

the representation of Vaginov as a writer who freed himself from the influence of

modernism and came to classical poetics, was shared by contemporaries and early

researchers of Vaginov who appealed to ideologically neutral cultural models. At the

same time, the unofficial culture had the opposite perception of Vaginov as a silenced

writer whose unknown collection was embedded in the series of “returned” texts of

the first half of the 20th century. The reception of Vaginov’s life and work by readers

and researchers was based on the Zvukopodobie. This is confirmed by the analysis

of the periodization of the writer’s work

Keywords: textology, текстология, неофициальная культура, Konstantin Vaginov, Константин Вагинов, non-official art, Zvukopodobie, Звукоподобие