Hafiz in Afanasy Fet’s creative mind

The paper is devoted to the reconstruction of the concept «Hafiz» in Afanasy Fet’s creating mind based on his lyrical cycle «From Gafiz». Consideration is given to the question of typological affinity between Fet’s poetics and the Sufi literature of medieval Iran. Study is made of the problem of cyclization in Fet’s translation of the cycle «From Gafiz». The reasons for and the chronology of Fet’s interest in the book «Hafiz» by Georg Daumer are investigated in the context of the poet’ translational activity. Daumer’s book is viewed in the context of other translations of «Hafiz» into German in the XIX century: those by Joseph Hammer, Friedrich Rückert and Vinzenz Rosenzweig-Schwannau. Particular attention is paid to the study of Afanasy Fet’s Orientalist competence. On the basis of the Preface, notes and the poetics of the «From Gafiz» cycle conclusions are drawn regarding the impact of Daumer’s philosophical and aesthetic ideas on the poetics and concept sphere of the cycle in question. Key parameters of Fet’s conceptual image of «Gafiz» in the late 1850s are defined.

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