The Antinomic Nature of Everyday Life in the Philosophical and Artistic Perception of S. Krzhizhanovsky

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Classification – name: Literary studies
Author: Ekaterina P. Beliaeva, Kirill I. Beliaev
Pages: 493-502
Publisher: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS Publ.)
Rights – description: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (СС BY-ND)
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Language of the publication: Russian
Type of document: Research Article
Collection: The Antinomic Nature of Russian Modernism Poetics and Modern Humanities Thought
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0875-2-493-502
EDN:
https://elibrary.ru/EXYMCB
Year of publication: 2026
Place of publication: Moscow
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Beliaev, K.I., Beliaeva, E.P. “The Antinomic Nature of Everyday Life in the Philosophical and Artistic Perception of S. Krzhizhanovsky.” Antinomichnost’ poetiki russkogo modernizma i sovremennaia gumanitarnaia mysl’ [The Antinomic Nature of Russian Modernism Poetics and Modern Humanities Thought], ex. ed. Svetlana V.Fedotova. Moscow,IWLRASPubl., 2026,pp. 493–502.(In Russian) 1 Electronic Optical Disc. Text: Electronic. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0875-2-493-502

Information about the authors:

Kirill I. Beliaev, Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Textology and Scientific Editorship of Leo Tolstoy, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya St., 25A, bld. 1, 121069 Moscow, Russia; PhD student, Department of Theory of Literature, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye gory, 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0824-5905

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Ekaterina P. Beliaeva, Master’s student, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye gory, 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0748-1710

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Abstract:

The article explores the antinomic nature of everyday life as an ontological category in the philosophical and artistic worldview of the modernist writer S.D. Krzhizhanovsky. The analysis focuses on the author’s ontological system, outlined in the theatre study “The Philosophical Idea of Theatre,” which comprises four categories: being, everyday life, would-be (by), and 0 (non-being). This concept can be applied to the writer’s worldview and artistic method. According to the author, everyday life appears as a substratum of being, its unauthentic copy, positioned between being and non-being. This reflects the antinomic essence of everyday life, where both existential and non-existential qualities are manifested. Additionally, everyday life possesses properties opposite to the category of “being,” such as visibility, multiplicity, and variability. Nevertheless, despite its accessibility to sensory perception, everyday life cannot be fully grasped in its manifestations: the “patchwork” nature of reality captivates the gaze but prevents the comprehension of things as they are. The author identifies several paths to exit the everyday life, stemming from the antinomic nature of this category. Escaping everyday life into being is possible through love as a universal tool of cognition, while the transition from everyday life into would-be (by) is achieved through creative action. The artistic embodiment of these ideas is analyzed through the example of the novella “The Collector of Cracks”.