Iosif Brodski i Nikołaj Rubcow – o tożsamościowych kontekstach dwóch wierszy

Abstract

This paper deals with two poems: “Ты поскачешь во мраке…” by Joseph Brodsky, and “Я буду скакать по следам задремавшей отчизны…” by Nikolay Rubtsov. Analysing some features of these poems and comparing similarities in both poets’ biographies, the author states the significant difference between them. Rubtsov, in his opinion, has an identity typical of pre-modern subjectivity. It is conventional, stereotypical and conservative, full of faith in traditional, idealised Russian values. Brodsky’s self-defining is in this aspect close to late modernity. It is liquid, all the time in movement, never convinced about self-identity.