TITANS AND GENIUS IN WORLD LITERATURE

Abstract

The meta-tradition of Western culture, revealing itself in the phenomenon of world literature, can be described through the communicative interaction of prominent personalities - creators, whose spiritual efforts create literary works that have left their mark on national and world culture. Titans are those who could be called titans of a similar creative process, the creators of individual schools and trends that have had a large-scale impact on people around the world. There is usually a school of his followers around the tyrant, where even those who are not fully aware of the fact that they stand on their shoulders can be attributed.

At the same time, the titans are not just singles, whose efforts give birth to a culture. A careful analysis of historical data convincingly shows that titanium does not appear in a bare place. Before it arises as if from nothing, there is not always noticeable, but very important and painstaking work within the culture. It is carried out by geniuses - people whose creative talent creates a nourishing ground for the birth of a new, not previously experienced. The Titans, absorbing the juices of the cultivated soil, are able on this basis to create a fundamentally new, previously not present in the culture, arche-image, to embody in it a new archeparadox. In ancient Greece, such three-faced titans were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as Plato. In Europe, the New Age in the broad sense of the word - Dante, Cervantes and Goethe. In Russia - Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The deepening of the discussion on the role and place of these personalities in the history of world literature shows their special role in Western cultural metatradition and the deepest influence on the development of world culture.

In the world literature created by the titans, there is always a great paradox, great questions, great mystery of a man. There is this quivering trembling creature between good and evil, which is unclear what.