Mediterranean and fictional space in Salvador Espriu's book of poems Cementiride Sinera

The relevance of the article is caused by referring to a work of the famous twentieth-century Catalan poet Salvador Espriu, who is little-studied in Russia. The category of space in the cycle of Espriu’s book of poems Cementiri de Sinera (Cemetery of Sinera) is analyzed by means of biographical and literary historical methods, using studies of Russian and foreign researchers. The compositional basis of the collection is the journey of the lyrical hero through fictional Sinera, endowed with features of a real Catalan seaside town of Arenys, where the poet spent his childhood and where his ancestors lived. Cozy homeland, separated from the rest of the world by sea and mountains, which is at the same time a part of the vast Mediterranean expanse, has become synonymous with an idealized happy life ruined by the Spanish Civil War and the events that followed it. Although the poet’s gaze is fixed on the past, the grammatical emphasis on the present and the future points to the continuity and the connection of times, reinforcing the hope that the next generation will not shrug off its country’s history. Despite the fact that the work is dominated by the subjective lyrical component, the author managed to touch on civic issues and find a response from a wide range of readers.