Article

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

Authors: M. A. Dmitrovskaya

I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Alexander Skidan, philosophical system, multilingual anagrammatic code, anagram, language game, intertext, levels of explicit and implicit semantics, semantic reconstruction

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