Apophatics of artistic thinking of V.S. Vysotsky: folklore frames in the poem «My funeral»

The object of the article is the phenomenon of apophatics in modern artistic culture, which manifests itself in poetry through folklore cases and national constants. The subject of the scientific work is the analysis of the interaction of folklore and literature, which organizes vertical transmission in culture and allows us to trace the processes of apophaticization of creativity. The material was the work of the Russian poet V.S. Vysotsky, who represents the phenomenon of the author's song. In the center of the hermeneutic analysis is the famous poem "My Funeral", which was set to music by the author and became a famous song. Much attention is paid to the poetics of sleep, since sleep is apophatic in nature and is equated, according to Slavic folk beliefs, with death. The relevance of the undertaken study is due to the growing need to comprehend the ontological issues of Soviet poetry, which for a long time were taboo in Russian literary criticism of the last century. The authors of the study pay great attention to the border ethos in the poet's poem, the phenomenon of sleep associated with the space of another world and anti-world. The forms of manifestation of the folklore tradition in the poetics of V.S. Vysotsky are analyzed. The methodology of the study is reduced to a holistic hermeneutic analysis of the artistic text. The results of the study may be of interest to cultural scientists and literary scholars who consider literature in the space of a large dialogue of cultures.