Chistopol Notebook by Arseny Tarkovsky: the Problem of the Addressee

The work raises the problem of a poetic word that goes beyond the ordinary and the scientific, demonstrating the extreme degree of man’s capture by the being of the world. The poet is inside the truth of his being, his life, which is experienced subjectively, but is related to the integrity of the world. Connecting the world with his talent, the poet has the right to appeal to any being. The paper analyzes and interprets Arseniy Tarkovsky’s Chistopol Notebook. The authors consider the Notebook as a unified whole and single out in the poems of the Notebook the problem of addressing the lyrical hero, the problem of the image of the addressee, to whom the poems of the Notebook are addressed. The targeted address here has a religious character and is associated with a complex female symbol-image, in which the river, Motherland, woman, mother, and hope are combined. Poetry is the opposite of all complacency and respectability; it is a manifestation of life itself, without distancing and alienation, in its authenticity.