Valery Bryusov. Creativity of the "hammer and jeweler"

Valery Bryusov comes from a merchant family. He received an excellent education and had encyclopedic knowledge. In 1893, when he was 20 years old, the young man wrote the first poem "Decadents. (The End of the Century). "

The work breathed sympathy for the Frenchsymbolism. The poet himself wrote a few years earlier to the famous Verlaine that he sees his purpose in being the founder of symbolism in his homeland. Two years later, three collections "Russian Symbolists" appeared, in which Valery Maslov published his poems by none other than Bryusov under the pseudonym. The work of the poet was ridiculed after the appearance in the almanac of the mono "Oh close your pale legs." Not only Bryusov, but all symbolism in general, got it.

It's high time

In 1900 the collection "Tertia Vigilia" appeared. About this time the contemporary of Bryusov Vladislav Khodasevich wrote in his memoirs that the "cutting dissonance" of the poems consisted of "a combination of decadent exoticism with the simple-hearted Moscow philistinism". However, this did not stop Bryusov getting a suite of admirers and imitators. He tirelessly experimented with the form and "music" of the verse. His dream was to write a book in which the poetry of "all times and nations" would sound. At the same time in magazines of that time it was possible to find a great many works of European poets translated by Valery Bryusov.

Life and creativity tightly intertwined with each otherfriend in those moments when the poet was in love. His vivid affair with Nina Petrovskaya resulted in a cycle of poems dedicated to her. The historical stylization "Fiery Angel" is partly dictated by the love triangle that happened between her, Bryusov and the poet Andrei Bely. Dedicated Bryusov book of poetry and another of his passion - Nadezhda Lvova. That was the period when the poet reigned supreme in literary magazines "Libra" and "Scorpio", which he himself created.

Myths. City. Revolution

Subtle eroticism of mythological imagesgradually yielding to the sharpness of urban landscapes. Valery Bryusov portrayed the urban theme with admiration for the rumbling rhythms of the city, perhaps most vividly in Russian poetry. The work of the writer is not exhausted in this topic by his own verses. He offers the reader a book of translations of Verkharn's poetry, where the city sees him as the "ruler of the universe."

Another powerful source of inspiration for the poetwas Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The author of more than eighty articles on him, the editor of letters and documents related to the work of a genius, was Bryusov. The work of the poet of the period of the first Russian revolution did not remain aloof from public life. Bryusov declares his interest in the fate of "humiliated and insulted." Such, for example, are the poems "The Mason" and "The Dying Fire". As a witness of the brutal reality of the First World War, Valery Bryusov suffered a nervous shock. His creativity acquired a note of tragic despair in describing the future. The poet was waiting for the decline of civilization. These moods clearly sounded in the books "Star Mountain" and "The Rise of the Machines."

Enthusiastically welcomed the Russian writerrevolution of 1917. His civil attitudes have found a place in publishing. Bryusov inspired the "unions", "departments" and "committees" of the Soviet Republic, and even joined the Communist Party.

Sunset

Poetic experiments of the time when Bryusovtries, according to Khodasevich's apt remark, "through the conscious cacophony to find new sounds," did not find a response from the public. Watching how under the power of the Bolsheviks the dreams of a new beautiful life are falling, the poet was disappointed and even depressed, partly due to his addiction to drugs. Valery Bryusov died of pneumonia at the age of fifty and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Creativity of Bryusov is a manifest of boundlessfreedom of the artist. Evaluating his contradictory and innovative manner, contemporaries called the poet "a hammer and a jeweler." Undoubtedly, the prophetic remark was Valery Bryusov: "I want to live, so that in the history of universal literature there are two lines about me. And they will. "