Turgenev and Goethe. Something about psychopoetics, eros and beauty

The article traces the intertextual relations of erotic motives in the works of I.S. Turgenev and J.W. Goethe’s novel “ The Sorrows of Young Werther”. The author seeks to prove that common to both writers, the image of the feminine passive lover, often doomed, goes back to Plato's understanding of Eros as the embodiment of the need for love, which is doomed to impossibility of satisfaction. The psychopoetics of Turgenev, close to Goethe’s one and based on a suggestive delievery of "unspeakable", as well as a number of repeated motivs demonstrate the commitment of both authors to the Platonic tradition of the image of the erotic sphere, interpreted as sentimental and melancholic way.