Originality of myth-poetry discourse in The Rose of the World by Daniel Andreev

In the middle of the 20 c in Russia D.L.Andreev realized his experience of familiarizing with a mythical way of understanding the world in an art form. Andreevs wrote The Rose of the World, The Iron Mystery and a cycle of verses Russian gods in the genre of myth-poetry. Myth loci are found in The Rose of the World that become obvious at imposing of its material on the main principles of the mythical paradigm. Andreev created the newest mythical chronotop in Russian culture. Its time is not chronological. The Rose of the World exists in liturgical time. It is the main mythical sacred event, which attracts all cultural-mythological intuitions of the newest poet of the myth. The Rose of the World exists in spiritually mystical time and space of the poet of the myth. It is restoration of sources of humankind, the sacral here reveals in mystical and logic experience. Andreev leaves chronological time and creatively joins the sacred time of the ritually reproduced eternal plots. It carries out mytho-cultural creativity. Andreev postulated existence of a certain objective spiritual reality to which many hundreds people are already attached. At the world scale, it is capable to have mystical influence on people. People start feeling unified in this spiritual reality and by means of it. The author does not prove its existence logically and does not address to the arguments of reason. It only influences the reader's imagination mentally. Andreev is not the researcher, but the storyteller of his own version of history. The sense of a narration is in giving people a new Olympus of participation. Andreev lists mystical souls of cultures - zatomises in metaphysics. The essence approaches the configuration of these spatial phenomena parataxis. The substantial moment of inclusion of all levels, numbers and worlds into Andreev's metaphysics in the long mytho-epic list is the parity of each number or level with Andreev's newest mythical chronotops - with the Rose of the World. The removal of the ideal - material antinomy is of fundamental value for mythical thinking. Andreev devotes a small chapter in TheRose of the World to the solution of the problem of primacy of the ideal or the material. The judgement about their unity does not have a logically deduced character, but an emotionally incentive one for D. Andreev: the poet of the myth suggests apprehending the thesis of the given unity on trust. The object as a transcendental object for persons of the myth acts in unity with the subject's knowledge of it. The subject in consciousness and the subject out of consciousness are identical. The knowledge of the world gets complete character. The object for persons of the myth is active because it contains the divine force. In the mystical experience this force manifests itself through God whom it depends on to the person. The Voice reveals Andreev's intrinsic parties of each phenomenon of the reality and gives the author of the newest mythology a complete true judgement about it. TheVoice clears up the activity of a cognizable subject, and the subject itself starts to reveal before poets of the myth in all its completeness. Thus, we find substantial elements of mythical thinking in The Rose of the World.

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