“Two powers” in the work: M.M. Bakhtin’s treatise “The author and the hero in aesthetic activity” and post-Chalcedonian theology

A work of verbal art consists of an inseparable union of two consciousnesses - the author and the hero - the one that designs and the one that is designed. The author “predestines the givenness of another person”, then creates an imaginary existence and embodies the “predestined” hero in it. The hero, when embodied, receives a new nature of the created being, which is not present in the author. Thanks to this, the foreign natural author becomes “inno visible” to his creation. According to M.M. Bakhtin, the author is manifested only as the “energy of the work”. The author is also a “creator of form”, because by embodying the character’s existence in an event, he gives him freedom to live in the created artistic world. But at the decisive moment he interrupts this life, performing the “saving design” of the character and the entire artistic world in the act of completion. The author “is tangentially connected with the world”. At the point of contact there is “an almost imperceptible for the mind transition of one point of view into another”. The hero, when embodied in fullness, becomes the bearer of two natures, the one he had in the predestined existence of the author creator and the one he received when embodied in the work. In the moment of aesthetic completion, the hero, transferring himself into the hands of the author outside of creation, dies, but thanks to the nature that is one and the same with the author, predestined before creation, he is resurrected again, renewing the entire nature of the created artistic world. This paschal moment is the main focus of the article, which is examined on the basis of post Chalcedonian theology.