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Keywords: poem, interpretation, rethinking, agonality, narrator’s phenomenon, myth semantic.
The article critically reviews the traditional for Russian philology assessments of the poem «Enchanted Beauty» («Sahy Beauty») by B. Gurzhibekov, classic of the Ossetian literature. In contrast to the ideological interpretations in line with the discourse of social realism, a new interpretation of the work is presented as realization (perhaps at a subconscious level) of the ideas of the agonality of worlds — a universal motive in the ancient mythological systems. The reconstruction of the archaic reservoir of imagery allows discuss the plot core of the poem, sustained in the spirit of the Zoroastrian concepts of dualism, inherited in their turn from the ancient Iranian religion. It is about the recognition of two equal forces in the universe: the Good and the Evil, their struggle being the very condition for the existence of the universe. The agonistics of the personal sphere is represented in the poem by the confrontation between the Storyteller and Avdeu, characters with the ability to penetrate into all spheres of the universe, but with opposite or polar functions. Such an interpretation of the characters makes it possible to reveal the hidden symbolism of the narrator’s phenomenon in the work, and to give the status of a space battle to the competition of the rivals, outwarding it beyond personal motivation. Equally, the remote control motive by Avdeu of the girl from the tower makes it possible to adequately semanticize the title of the poem: the epithet «sahy» in its original title emphasizes not exceptional beauty, but the state of enchantment of the heroine. Everything else: questions of origin, generic roots of the proto-character, the line of love — that is positioned by researchers as freedom of expression of feelings, and even magic gifts (mirror, sword) are nothing but temporal stratifications, social and ethical reflections of the writer, superimposed on the structure of the ancient myth.
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