A.S. Pushkin Writing as an Expression of Synthesis of Linguistic and Cultural Peculiarities of Russia and Europe
The article deals with a number of problems related to A. Pushkin’s role in the formation of the Russian language and culture, as well as their interaction with linguistic and cultural features of Europe. First of all, this is the problem of Pushkin's untranslatability into foreign languages, in comparison to other geniuses of the world poetry - W. Shakespeare, A. Dante, J.W. Goethe. This circumstance explains the fact that A. Pushkin is not so well-known in the world as some of Russian classical authors - L.N. Tolstoy, F.M. Dostoevsky, A.P. Chekhov. The author of the article analyzes cultural and historic assessment of A. Pushkin's creativite work, made by Russian writers and philosophers, both of the past and present, including representatives of the Russian emigration. The article depicts A. Pushkin's attitude to the use of French words and style in Russian texts, as well as his enterpretation of plot and semantic borrowings in his own poems and novels. The author comes to the conclusion that A. Pushkin’s works are unique and they contain a combination of opposite phenomena. It is his ability of being unique that prevents his masterpieces from translation, because no other means except his own can be used in A. Pushkin’s poems.