The cosmogonic aspect of dacha/summer house in Leonid Aronzon's poem "Komarovo"

Abstract

In our paper, we analyse the terms dacha (дача) and summer house (особняк) within the cultural field which these terms cover in the Russian literature. In the poem "Komarovo" Leonid Aronzon does not directly use the word dacha as an image and designation of the place where Ana Ahmatova lived. In this way, he transforms the habitus of the social field into the habitus of the cultural field: Aronzon elevates the concept of dacha (dacha) to the concept of a summer house (особняк), which in Imperial Russia is the part of a manor house, the house where landowners lived. Therefore, in the subtext Aronzon suggests that the manor estate (усадьба)  represents a place of lofty thought, which is especially evident in the case of the locus of Komarov and Anna Akhmatova. Also, in this poem Leonid Aronzon transforms Anna Akhmatova's dacha topos into a dacha myth. The poet mythologizes the concept of Komarovo, which is diachronic and historical, transforming it into a synchronic and universal one, into an archetype of culture.

Keywords: Aronzon dacha, locus, topos, hierotopos