Symbolist Bryusov Biography

I love Bryusov all dreams, I am dear to me all the speeches, and I devote to the verse of Bryusov Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov - the founder of Russian symbolism, already at the age of 13 he connected his future with poetry. The earliest famous poetic experiments Bryusov are to; A year, a little later his first stories appeared. In years, three collections “Russian Symbolists” come out.

As it turned out later, the author of most verses was Bryusov himself, who spoke under various pseudonyms in order to create the illusion of the existence of a literary association of like -minded people. In moments of creative insight, Bryusov believed, the poet was visited by amazing and strange images. They can be conveyed only with the help of symbols that should "as if hypnotize the reader, to cause a certain mood in it." And this Bryusov was brilliantly succeeded.

For Bryusov-symbolist, art is "comprehension of the world in other, not rational ways." He wanted to rise above reality in the worlds of high culture. For this, as it seems to him, you only need to get away from the dirt of our time. In the year, he writes to the poem “Young Poet”: the young man is pale with the eyes of burning, now I give you three covenants.

The first accept: do not live the present, only the future is the poet. The second Testament: “Do not sympathize with anyone,” the third - “Worship art.” To pray to unearthly beauty, to feel like a citizen of the Universe, to talk on equal terms with pyramids and vikings, with the world of ideal nature created in dreams, is the highest happiness for the poet: Bryusov believed that the main task of the real poet was to catch the moment of insight, the peak of inspiration, to open his deepest and most secret feelings Valery Yakovlevich and the singer of the city.

The city for him is the center of civilization, reason, knowledge, triumph of human capabilities. Bryusov welcomed the revolution of the year. In his own way he perceived the failed in Russia: neither rudeness nor darkness scared him. The symbolist poet became a poet who romanticizing reality. The exotic, unhealthy world was replaced in its verses to the "new - common ocean", and "October lay down in life by a new era." He could not have imagined that the new literature, the new society, which he had so enthusiastically welcomed, would almost forget about it for decades, recalling only when they would scold symbolism he introduced into literature.

Poetry, prose, translations, criticism and literary criticism - the writer was interested in many aspects of literary work. He acted as a journalist and editor. Today, the contribution of Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov to the theoretical justification of symbolism and literary creativity as a whole is very important.