Reprezentacja pandemii SARS-CoV-2 w najnowszych utworach współczesnych poetów rosyjskich (na materiale twórczości Borisa Griebienszczikowa, Andrieja Makarewicza i Siergieja Sznurowa)
Repre-sentations of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in the latest works of contemporary Russian poets (in the works of Boris Grebenshchikov, Andrey Makarevich and Sergey Shnurov)

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the literary representa-tions of the coronavirus pandemic in the latest Russian poetry. The example materi-als are poems by Boris Grebenshchikov, Andrey Makarevich and Sergey Shnurov. Each of the authors, without breaking the achievements of his predecessors, uses poetic tricks characteristic of his workshop and proposes his own vision of modern man in the face of an unprecedented threat. The writers introduce the topic of SARS-CoV-2 disease for the first time to the poetic world. Situating this issue in a new social, political and cul-tural context, they explore it with particular emphasis on the Russian perspective. In the poetics of Grebenshchikov’s pandemic works dominates a specific polemic with the texts of other authors (e.g. intertextual references to Joseph Brodsky) and a reference to universal philosophical systems; in Makarevich’s writings one can observe an in-depth reflection on existence; while Shnurov has an untypical sense of humour, satire, irony, sarcasm and grotesque. The new reality (self-isolation, maintaining social distance, changing habits, closing borders) has forced artists to even more actively use new media to consolidate and distribute poetic material. Therefore, it gave the recipients immediate and unlimited access to the artistic world of contemporary authors.

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