N. A. Zabolotsky and G. S. Gore: from organics to antiorganics

The article analyzes G. S. Gore’s poetry in the context of the idea of organics. Having read the books of L. S. Berg and B. M. Kozo-Polyansky and being delighted by V. I. Vernadsky’s doctrine of the biosphere, Gore elaborated on the concept of the spiritual biosphere, identifying it — through Khlebnikov — with the understanding and role of the poetic language. Reflections on the idea of organics, inspired by the epoch, on nature, cosmos, human, language, and their coexistence made him an adept of natural philosophy. This is confirmed, primarily, by Gore’s increased interest in the early work of N. A. Zabolotsky. Proceeding from the utopian idea of the historical avant-garde about the rebirth of the world and consciousness in the poetic word, conjugated with the naturphilosophical doctrine of the unification and interpenetration of all living things, Gore in his poems tries to transcend time and space in the linguistic biosphere. But along the way, he encounters obstacles, historical, verbal, spiritual, and corporeal. Gore’s absurdist word, intended to reflect and transform the catastrophic disintegration of the world and man, loses its potential to generate new meanings. Deprived of the possibility of transcendent breakthrough, revival, the author’s poetic word retains its mimetic function — in a fluent and detailed way, from the inside, from the total frozen space and time in the self-world, it conveys the tragedy and horror of the absurd existence of living corpses — the world of antiorganics.