Not more than a poet. Review of the book: Artistic World of Bella Akhmadulina: Collected papers [proceedings of the 1st International Conference, Moscow, 11 April 2012]. Tver: Marina Batasova Publishing House, 2016. 130 p. 150 copies

Abstract

This collection on the creative work of Bella Akhmadulina comprises articles of the researchers from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine. It investigates basic parameters of the artistic world, personal identity creation, peculiarities of metric and strophic repertories, category of theatricality, perception of Akhmadulina’s poetry by Brodsky, principles of poet’s acoustic thought, lyrical diptych Word (1965)and The Midnight Savior (2007), landscape discourse and world view,poetics of the essay Nabokov’s Return, Akhmadulina’s place within the secondary school literature canon. The collection of works is a serious scientific publications dedicated to the creative work of one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century second half.