CULTURAL UNIVERSALS IN RUSSIAN MEMOIR PROSE OF THE SILVER AGE

Universal human representations of cultural experience and activity,

symbolically reflected in memory and memoirs, figurative and worldview

constructions, are associated with the initial experience of structuring the world,

with the establishment of systems of kinship terms, the semantics of the name, with

ritual and magical practice. The set of universals provides a measure of the valence

of semantic crossings and determines the operation of the mechanisms of figurative

and ritual-gestural representations. Representations of Russian culture continue to

have a significant influence on it. Modern writers turn to the poetics of the “Silver

Age” in connection with the cultural, historical and philosophical problems of its

creation: Russia, its cultural and historical mission, the problem of the collapse of

humanism, the phenomenon of revolution and the artist’s attitude towards it, the

problem of the responsibility of the intelligentsia to the people.

Keywords: poetics, literary text, cultural code, symbolism, acmeism.