Между гранитной вазой и дверью дворца. Ещe раз о «Летнем саде» Анны Ахматовой
Between a Granite Vase and Palace Doors. Once Again About the Summer Garden by Anna Akhmatova

Summary/Abstract: The interpretation of the poem The Summer Garden, conducted within the context of the motives and images of Western European modernism, is not a particularly attractive theme for the scholars of Anna Akhmatova’s poetry. Meanwhile, a comparative study of the panchronic aspects found in The Summer Garden and of some texts by T. S. Eliot, D. Joyce and D. H. Lawrence helps to explain or even defy certain statements made by the researchers of Akhmatova’s creative work. This article deals with the relationship between these writing strategies utilized by the author and the phenomenon of the description of “time” in Akhmatova’s poetry. In view of Akhmatova’s attraction toward Western literature (especially her interest in Eliot’s, Joyce’s and M. Proust’s works), the article proposes to introduce several philosophical and aesthetic categories and metaphors (“still point,” “rose garden,” “vase”) as instruments for the study of Akhmatova’s artistic thought. The comparison of the works of Akhmatova and the European modernists is not limited to reading The Summer Garden. Some remarks also relate to the Poem Without a Hero, one part of which has an epigraph from Eliot’s Four Quartets and is associated with the transcendence of time.

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