Время и вечность в “Римском дневнике 1944 года” Вячеслава Иванова

Abstract

The article considers historical and mythological time in their correlation with the category of Eternity, peculiar to Ivanov’s “Roman Diary of 1944”. The author identifies in the imagery of the lyrics of “Roman diary” the interweaving of the oppositе categories: Christian holidays – with the astronomical zodiacal circle, God's – with human’s, eternal memory – with historical reality, light with darkness. Time in the lyrics of “Diary” is not linear, but rather round and the real, give rise to thoughts of death and Eternal return.