Text and "anti-text" in the poetic consciousness of Boris Pasternak

Artistic consciousness, embodied in the poetic world of Boris Pasternak, isclearly focused on differentiating and contrasting of textual and "non-textual" forms of perception andreconstruction of reality. The creative instinct of any writer to a greater or lesser extent is driven byboth text creating and text overcoming impulses. In this sense, the text is not only the creation of theauthor's consciousness but also a phenomenon that sets its own rather rigid rules. What kind of featuresand laws of the existence of the text is in question here? First, it refers to the text as a secondary(mirrored) phenomenon as against a living primeval sense, word and being. Secondly, the text and textconsciousness is not a formation of the meaning as such, but a design, "completion" (M. Bakhtin) ofthe already existing sense.On the contrary, the "anti-text" is a formation of a living sense. Primary, not mediated reality ofthis formation is anti-textual by its very nature and essence: the text being a sign system mediates andfulfills the sense with signs and meanings, and thus deprives it of the primary living essence. The formationof the sense can be reflected in the text; however, it is not the formation itself but its "image" or"sign", its reflection. Therefore, one of the highest values for the anti-textual consciousness is the instantaneousexpression of life, feelings, experiences, impressions, etc. escaping the eyes, in no waycapable of being caught and recorded in its totality, self-sufficiency and inexhaustibility.If in the creative horizon of most artists the struggle with the text, text consciousness and textualityof literary words is immanent and unconscious, in Pasternak's poetry it is explicated as an artistictask at the level of lyrical plot, imagery, language and style. Moreover, it is openly declared at the levelof poetic content in the complexes of motives and themes that occur in Pasternak's poems throughouthis artistic work. The image of the text consciousness and the possibility of overcoming it in art are embodies in the poems by Pasternak at the level of poetic form. One of the most significant features ofPasternaks poetics is the rhythmic structure of a verse and the perception of poetic rhythm as a law ofthe text life. Thus, the text and "anti-text" in their dialogical relationship become the objects of artisticrepresentation and reflection in the poetic consciousness of Pasternak. As an example, we analyze afragment of the poem "Christmas Star"

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