The mythologeme of path in A. Orlov's poetic book “The resurgent sun”: a culturological commentary

The object of the article is the mythologeme of path which is dominant in Russian traditional and verbal culture. The subject of the research is the variations of the path-road binomial in modern poetry. The material for the article is represented by a new book of poetry by a contemporary writer A. Orlov “The Revived Sun”. The focus of the culturological-philosophical and ontological- hermeneutical analysis is the interaction of the phenomenal and noumenal, rational and metaphysical in poetry. Much attention is paid to the problem of metaphysics of creativity, its apophatic aspect in the Russian cosmo-psycho-logos, which is of great importance for understanding the ontological issues of writers' creative work. The methodology of the research is mainly represented by the holistic ontological-hermeneutical analysis aimed at highlighting the cultural potential of the given poetic book, the study of axiological and ontological value of the mythologeme of path in modern verbal culture. Much attention is paid to the comparison of poems within the book, the analysis of its structure as well as the national specifics and the geography of Russian plain which can not be ignored, when talking of Russian literature and perceiving it holistically. The results of the present research may be of interest to literary historians who include literature in the space of a great dialogue of cultures and may also be used in teaching courses on culturology and Russian philosophy.