Iks, Igrek, Death (Amadeus et al.: foundations of A. Skidan’s philosophical
system)

The article is devoted to the reconstruction of Alexander Skidan’s
philosophical system. The research was carried out on a poem “Amadeus” from
the collection of poems «Delirium» (1993) as well as other author’s poems, essays
and critical literary works. The main methodological principle is the idea
of explicit and implicit levels of semantics. A multilingual anagrammatic code is
a means of transition from the implicit level to the explicit one, forming the basis
for text production. A. Skidan’s philosophical system is the unity of ontology,
epistemology, ethics and aesthetics. Starting from Descartes’ proposition
cogito ergo sum, A. Skidan doubts successively a thesis of existence and a thesis
of thinking, which is connected with the idea of generating scores of people and
the universe from I-unity (ego). A. Skidan uses arithmetical and algebraical
codes (with an emphasis on unknown x, y, z). The semantics of variation between
reality / illusiveness, the first / the second, direct motion / circular motion
unites all parts of the philosophical system. The article reveals the importance
of the title «Delirium» for the semantic reconstruction and discovers that the
author’s name Alexander Vadimovich Skidan reflects the basic principles
of the system. The article shows the importance of intertextual links with
A. S. Pushkin, V. Nabokov and K. Vaginov’s works. It is proved that A. Skidan’s
works contain an autometadescriptive element, i.e. the description refers not
only to the artistic reality, but to the act of generating speech and writing
as well.