Художественная рецепция творчества Иосифа Бродского в романистике Евгения Водолазкина (Авиатор, Брисбен, Чагин) .......... 417

THE ARTISTIC RECEPTION OF JOSEPH BRODSKY’S WORK IN THE NOVELS OF EVGENY VODOLAZKIN (THE AVIATOR, BRISBANE, CHAGIN)

The article examines examples of reminiscence and implicit references to the poetry of Joseph Brodsky in the novels of the contemporary Russian writer Yevgeny Vodolazkin. Vodolazkin’s recent novel Chagin opens with a quote from Brodsky’s poem Odysseus to Telemachus, which combines themes of memory and oblivion and the indirect dialogue between separated parents and children. Like Brodsky himself, Chagin in Vodolazkin’s novel relates his own fate to that of Odysseus, who needs to reconcile with his past and reunite with his beloved. Brodsky’s quote from the Fountain House is mentioned by Vodolazkin in his novels Chagin and The Aviator in the context of reflecting on the phenomenon of memory, which the writer sees as a means of escaping oblivion and preserving life in a metaphysical sense, despite physical destruction. Brodsky’s creative remembrance of his deceased father as someone who left for Australia in his poem In Memory of My Father. Australia is echoed by Vodolazkin in his novel Brisbane as one of the internal narratives. While Vodolazkin does not directly replicate Brodsky’s poetic lines, he shares Brodsky’s poetic understanding of memory as immortality and the non-material connection between departed parents and their children, symbolically becoming Brodsky’s true successor in contemporary Russian literature.