Apophatics of artistic thinking of V.F. Dudarev

The object of the study is the phenomenon of cultural apophatics, manifested in Russian artistic verbal culture, in poetry. The subject of scientific work is the figurative realizations of this phenomenon in modern poetry. The material for the article was the poetry of Valery Dudarev (editor-in-chief of the literary magazine “Youth” from 2007 to 2019), namely his poems from the early winter cycle, presented in the collections “On the slope of the twentieth century” and “Vetla”. The center of the hermeneutic analysis is the figurative realizations of the phenomenon of apophatics in the poet's poetry collection, which manifested the apophatic tradition of color and light associated with the existential loneliness, knowledge of the Other. We turn to Pushkin's text, views on the art of artists of the modernist era, V. Kandinsky at the typological level. We consider in detail the concept of “apophatics”, without which it is impossible to make a methodological breakthrough in terms of understanding the ontological issues of creativity. The results of the study consist in identifying the cultural-philosophical potential of modern poetry for further study of the problem of apophatics as a phenomenon of Russian artistic culture, its national existence. The results of the work may be of interest to literary scholars who include literature in the space of the great Bakhtinian dialogue of cultures, and can also be used in teaching courses on cultural studies and philosophy.