Alexander Kushner’s Petersburg Poems in the Supertext-System of Russian Literature

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the phenomenon of a supertext, its characteristics and typology. Particular attention is paid to the ‘Petersburg text’ in the oeuvre of Alexander Kushner. The author analyzes key images of the ‘Petersburg text’ in Russian literature and their representations in the poetry of Kushner, trying to determine the nature of his dialogue with the earlier literary tradition.