Mitul literar al lui Pușkin sub incidența avangardei. Viziunea lui Daniil Harms
Pushkin’s Literary Myth Viewed Through Lens of the Avantgarde. Daniil Harms’s Vision

Summary/Abstract: Daniil Harms is one of the most original figures in Russian literature of the first half of the 20th century. As a representative of the country’s vibrant avant-garde, Harms created important literary techniques and strategies that would be recognizable and even familiar in Russian postmodernism forty years later. Intertextuality is the lens through which Harms’s work will be analyzed in the present study, given that this literary device is, indeed, central to his work. For Harms the myth of the great Pushkin became an object to deconstruct. Harms had no desire to parody Pushkin’s work. Rather he parodied the way in which the myth of this famous Russian poet – the very emblem of Russia’s ‘Golden Age’ – was ideologized in the Soviet period. Thus, through the use of intertextuality, Harms protested against the cultural and literary clichés of the 1930s and against the false cult that was built up and around Pushkin.

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