РАФИНИРОВАННОЕ И ПРОСТОНАРОДНОЕ: РИЛЬКЕ И АНДРЕАС-САЛОМЕ В РОСТЯХ У ДРОЖЖИНА
REFINED AND FOLSKY: RILKE AND ANDREAS-SALOME MEETING DROZHZHIN

Summary/Abstract: The author considers R.M. Rilke’s interest in Russian culture as one of the most dramatic reactions of the Modernism epoch to the crisis of European civilization (“The Decline of the West”) and indie art as one of its forms. The distant idealization of a little-known culture expressed itself in the cult of things, typical for mass culture, and in the mythicization of real persons (particularly, of S.D. Drozhzhin). Personal knowledge demythicized things and persons thus complicating the understanding of a foreign culture. Mediators were very important in this process, and in the case of Rilke this role belonged to Lou Andreas-Salomé.

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