The Pushkin Code of Dmitry Alexandrovich Pridov. A Premonition of the Metamodern

The article discusses the problem of the artistic method of the founder of Moskow conceptualism Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov (DAP). Despite the fact, that system of new direction – meta modernism, which replaced postmodernism, took shape in the 2010s, when the master’s creative path ended, many features of DAP’s poetics indicate a premonition of a shift towards a new direction. Using the example of the analysis of Pushkin’s code, our article reveals a number of essential features of the emerging artistic system. Thus, in contrast to postmodernism, rhizome loses its absolute dominance in DAP’s works, returning new sincerity to the text and providing oscillation between it and parody. Using Pushkin’s code, the poet overcomes the opposition between the mass and the elite, which he directly states in the “Advance notice” to the collection “Poems of autumn – winter 1978”. The most significant rejection of the principles of postmodernism and a shift towards meta modernity can be observed in DAP’s “Evgenii Onegin Pushkina”, where in place of alienation irony, an opposite tendency arises – the appropriation of some else’s test, based on playing with the various components of Puskin’s verse novel. The effect of changing the size, deformation of onegin stanza, paratextual insertions, special punctuation, and finally, indications of principles of glossolalia creates a completely different text, that has passed the stage of Lermontov’s reflection and opens the way to a new method. Thus, it can be argued, that the DAP’s poetry works, which began in era of formation and development of postmodernism, initially did not fit within its boundaries and required new searches, that coincided with the main features of future literary movement

Assertion · Modernity · Poetics · Poetry · Postmodernism · Reinterpretation · Sincerity · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Historical and Modern Theater Studies · Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies