Oriental Text in Lermontov's poetics

The article proposes to look at the Oriental codes in M. Lermontov's works within the framework of the theory of local texts. The Oriental Text in the works of Lermontov is an ambivalent phenomenon that results from the conceptualization of Oriental motifs in the context of world's history and culture. Also it is a result of development of Romantic oriental trend in the literature, journalism and public consciousness of 1830-1840s. Of great importance for the formation of the Oriental Text in the late poetry of Lermontov are his works in Odoevsky's notebook, localized in the "East" section. Lermontov's Orientalism inherits and develops the concept of A. Pushkin's ''universal responsiveness'', deepens the Romantic trend of understanding of Muslim fatalism and forming of philosophical demonology. Speaking about the style category, Lermontov inherits the paradigm of Marlinsky's Caucasian poetics, but overcomes the mistakes of ''marlinism''. The Caucasus for Lermontov is not just a conventional romantic space, but the Orient which has its ethnographic features. However, Lermontov does not create the Russian-Caucasian synthesis. His mythical and poetical perception of the Caucasus is located within the same ''East-West synthesis'', solely by virtue of the fact that the concept of the Caucasus is conceptualized and implemented as a variant of the Orient. Dynamics of formation of the hypertextual East-West synthesis in the poetics of Lermontov against the background of the mass interest to the Muslim East can be represented by the change of stages: a) contact, b) inclusion, c) penetration, d) reciprocity. Fatalistic and demonic themes can be considered as the philosophical basis of Lermontov's Oriental Text. The main feature of Lermontov's Oriental poetics is the theme of destiny, which is included in the complex arguments about human freedom of choice, death and fatalism. The concept of the Demon appears in the context of philosophical and aesthetic understanding of a fallen angel as a free person who rebelled against the tyrant. There was a close connection between the concept of the Demon and the concept of Prometheus who rebelled against the tyranny of Zeus in the late Orientalism of Lermontov. The appearance of the concept of the North in the poem ''Dispute'' indicates the formation of the author's culturological position that determines the place of Russia in the dichotomy of the West and the East.

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