The Christmas songs cycle by J. A. Brodsky

The 1987 winner of the Nobel Prize Joseph Brodsky has always correlated his work with the traditions of neoclassicism. There are many examples of intertextuality in his poems, as he actively enters into a dialogue with his predecessors, which is one of the reasons for the inner freedom of the poet's unique creative personality. Another important component of Brodsky's stylistics is his interaction with the ironic poetics of postmodernism, which sensed the literature of any era as its own, and the work with the “culture of the finished word” (A. V. Mikhailov). In the cycle of Christmas poems by J. A. Brodsky, we identified two complementary traditions closely related to the gospel story: the adaptation of the miracle to the modern urban environment and immersion in the historical biblical chronotope with modernizing notes. In each of the parts of the cycle, various genre forms, poetic dimensions and poetic techniques are used to create a completely unique invective and hymnography in the second half of the 20th century.