Victor Krivulin, teoretician al culturii „neoficiale” din U.R.S.S., 1976-1984
Victor Krivulin as a Theorist of «Unofficial» Culture from USSR, 1976-1984

Summary/Abstract: The distinctive sign of the late soviet era is rapid development of «unofficial» culture. And one of the most important representative of the epoch is V. Krivulin, a literature and art critic, poet, the creator of «37» journal. A special merit of V. Krivulin is consideration of samizdat phenomenon, underground consciousness typology research. According to his interpretation «different culture» is «integral phenomenon that has specific features of “great style”». In its core there are «compression of historical experience into personal word», close connection of expression and personality, the possibility of «multi-layered» reading of each text. The samizdat author’s purpose is to bring into correlation «the eternal language of poetry» and «the barking language of shared apartment», his role is a role of a «victim». Poverty, both material and spiritual, is considered as liberation that gives opportunity to see more than meets the eye. Poetics, which is close to underground culture, is «ascetic» poetics that destroys all conventions and offers sequential refusal of «beauty». At the same time, V. Krivulin assumes, «unofficial culture», despite the fact that is highly self-consciousness, could define itself only through denial of the Soviet aesthetic system. The positive meaning of the new art experience slipped away from definition since the epoch of self-publishing could not associate itself with any of the existing art traditions. «Stop in the Desert» created cultural marginalization, and the self-reflection generated «negative dialectics». Connecting modernistic and post-modernistic eras of Russian literature, V. Krivulin always paid attention to history metaphysics; this fact, as well as specific interpretation of subject role, singles him out against the background of «unofficial» culture.

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