Concepts of LIE and TRUTH of LIFE as Transfer Semantic Elements
of Dmitry Gorchev’s Poetics

The article is devoted to the analysis of the concepts of LIES and
TRUTH of LIFE as transfer semantic elements in the works by Gorchev. Russian
literature at the breaks of its existence bore the essential conflict of “lies”
and “life truth”, which in various forms, ideas and images manifested itself in the rhetorical discourse of teaching words and hagiography of Old Russia and
literature of the Russian Enlightenment, in the Russian novel of the 19th century
and the vanguard of the 20th century, first of all in the literary practice of the
oberiuts. In Gorchev’s works the concepts of “lies” and “truths of life” enter
into a complex and productive relationship, becoming the poles of “senseconductivity”.
The narration develops between these two conceptual points,
generating in its movement artistic meanings, imbued with the incomparable
Gorchev’s irony and the horror of the final human existence behind it. Surrealistic
images in the poetics of Gorchev act as points of interaction between the
concepts of lies and the truth of life. From surreal there is no return to everyday
reality, but there is only a path to non-existence. Therefore, the entire surrealistic
world of Gorchev is extremely unstable, it balances on the verge of being and
non-being. This is a disappointing situation, but the heroes of Gorchev, and the
author himself, have never been superficial optimists. Their optimism is different
– in irony, turning into sarcasm and helping to overcome the “lies” that fill
this world with a final meaning – the meaning of personal existence, independent
of happiness, understood as personal existence.