Precedence of “The life of Fyodor Mikhailovich and Aleftina Pavlovna, or a hot COVID summer” by J. Pulinovich”: socio-cultural perspective

The range of definitions of the concept of “socio-cultural perspective” in the proposed article extends to the classification of the precedence of a literary work, which is also interpreted quite freely. The material under study, thanks to its special intertextual properties, is semantically very condensed, which can be demonstrated by analyzing the variously transformed artistic polyvalence of the title and finale. The method of doubling the title refers to paired Old Russian naming conventions and to a common emotional and logical causality, at the same time pointing to the synthetic nature of the genre organization of the text (drama / agiography // drama / epic). The specificity of the use of a precedent anthroponym in the title (Fyodor Mikhailovich) reveals several semiotic correlations in the text (from Dostoevsky to St. Christopher). The inclusion in the finale of two “alien” texts (“Zakalyaka” by Korney Chukovsky (virtually unchanged) and an interpretation of the New Testament story of Judas’ betrayal) allows us to reach a universal level of reading the play as extraordinary not only in the context of Jaroslava Pulinovich’s work, but also in the context of the literary trend of New Realism to which, we believe, it belongs. The chronotopic and figurative textual implicatures that lend themselves to multiple interpretations are reproduced punctually in the formulas “the interpenetration of time / eternity - the spaces of reality / memory / irreality - the spaces of the common / individual / existential / ontological”.