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Voltaire's Onomomyths in Russian Literary Consciousness of The Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 7 (2015 8) 1469-1478 ~ ~ ~ УДК 911.7(477.75) + 81’286 + 14 + 94(470) Voltaire’s Onomomyths in Russian Literary Consciousness of the Enlightenment Elena E. Prikazchikova* Ural Federal University named after the B. N. Yeltsin 19 Mira Str., Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russia Received 22.12.2014, received in revised form 19.01.2015, accepted 29.04.2015 The paper gives the analysis of five Voltaire’s onomomyths, created by literary mentality during the Age of Enlightenment in Russia. On the basis of investigation of these onomomyths, interpreting Voltaire as a fighter with religious fanaticism, as a plenipotentiary minister of the Hell, as a leader of liberals, as an inspirer of “Voltairian” suicides, as an organizer of the French revolution, the author comes to the conclusion about non-historical character of cultural creation of myths. The present creation of myths in new literary-historical conditions can regenerate and develop old plots, associated with the eternal problem of interrelation of personality and society. Keywords: Voltaire, onomomyths, the Age of Enlightenment, cultural mythology. DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-2015-8-7-1469-1478 Research area: philology. Introduction view of V.M. Naidysh that even in the era of The Enlightenment as the era of the classicism “the myth appeared as a kind of triumph of reason is considered to be anti- conscious, rational and ideological creativity mythological era compared to the first decades of the subject” (Naidysh, 2002, p. 405). of the 19th century or the beginning of the Ideologized myth-making of the 20th century, with their active literary myth- Enlightenment realized itself in the making position. However, in the theoretical phenomenon of cultural myth, which is a word study of the problems of myth-making, it is (the term “myth” is translated as “a word” from important to separate myth-making as a real Greek) about the world, functioning within process of literary consciousness of the era a certain subculture of a particular literary and analytical understanding of the role of the and historical era and which is found in the myth in scientific consciousness of any literary literature works par excellence. The collection movement. For the latter it seems productive of all cultural myths creates a certain model to use the term “philosophy of myth”. From of the world, which is proper for this very this perspective, one can find justifiable the literary era. © Siberian Federal University. All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: [email protected] – 1469 – Elena E. Prikazchikova. Voltaire’s Onomomyths in Russian Literary Consciousness of the Enlightenment Theoretical framework Voltaire’s onomomyths in the context Theoretical understanding of the problem of of the perfect man myth myth-making in the 18th century was proposed by A central place among the cultural myths of V.M. Zhivov, B.A. Uspenskii, A.M. Panchenko. the Age of Enlightenment is taken by the myth From the works of the last decade the most of the Man, or rather the myth of the Perfect important are monograph “Nina. The cultural Man. This is fully in line with the specifics of myth of the golden age of Russian literature in educational aesthetics, where as A.P. Valitskaia the linguistic coverage” by A.B. Pen’kovskii, rightly considered, a man “appears as a “goal” of monograph “The life of manor myth: paradise the movement of nature to perfection and at the lost and found” by E.E. Dmitrieva and same time as a “means” of improving the world” O.N. Kuptsova, monograph “Feeding the double (Valitskaia, 1983, p. 8). headed eagle”: literature and state ideology in There is a fundamental difference between Russia of the last third of the 18th –the first third a myth and a cultural anthropological utopia- of the 19th century” by A.L. Zorin, monograph eupsychia of the 18th century. The utopia- “Myths of the Empire: literature and the power eupsychia considers an alternative embodiment of in the era of Catherine II” by V.Iu. Proskurina, human existence in the modern world, allocating monograph “Poetic mythology of the 18th century. a special place to the ideal education of the person Lomonosov. Sumarokov. Kheraskov. Derzhavin” (the utopia of the Smolny Institute, the 1st Cadet by T.E. Abramzon. Among works of foreign Corps in St. Petersburg). Cultural mythology of the authors, which are related to the myth-making ideal man often deals with onomomyths – myths of the 18th century, we can distinguish highly of the name, where the possible models can be the informative works by R.S. Wortman “Scenarios names of the rulers (the mythology of Peter the of power. Myths and ceremony of the Russian Great as God-demiurge, creating a New Russia), monarchy, from Peter the Great to the death of ancient heroes, whose behavior in the context of Nicholas I” and L. Wolff “Inventing Eastern the myth-creating culture of the 18th century is Europe. Map of civilization in the consciousness thought to be exemplary (Horace Cocles, Muzio of the Enlightenment”. These works involve a Scaevola, Quirin Curtius), philosophers (Seneca, variety of aspects of cultural myth-making of the Socrates, Voltaire). 18th century: the state myth, manor myth-making The followers of Voltaire were one of the as a version of the park and garden myth of the most representative noble subcultures in the Enlightenment, poetic mythology of the leading 18th century – Voltairiens, who supposed that, Russian writers of the 18th century, the cultural according to American historian D. H. Billington, mythology of ethnic relations and creating “multifaceted French Enlightenment seems an image of Eastern Europe in the Western completely integrated, and Voltaire is placed in European consciousness. In all cases, the primary its heart” (Billington, 2001, p. 270). objective of the authors was to analyze the myth- Voltaire as “the century’s tribune” (according making mechanism, which manifests itself in to A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinskii), “the minds’ and different aspects of social and political life of fashion’s leader” (according to A.S. Pushkin) the Enlightenment, being reflected in a range retained his “intellectual yoke” over the reading of literary monuments of this time as artistic Russians until the era of A.S. Pushkin, who reflections, including travel literature, memoirs himself in youth experienced a passion for and epistolary works. “Ferney patriarch”. – 1470 – Elena E. Prikazchikova. Voltaire’s Onomomyths in Russian Literary Consciousness of the Enlightenment At the same time least of all Voltaire’s of the oppressed innocence” (Philosophical onomomyths were associated with a real ... correspondence, 1802, p. 18). Voltaire for biography of person Francois-Marie Arouet, the Russian Empress became a symbol of the who, in the view of A. Stroev, was a striking European Enlightenment, while she sees herself embodiment of the type of adventurer who as a true disciple of the great “Ferney patriarch”, made his fortune not by work, but by often not thus developing educational state myth about “a too plausible speculations” (Stroev, 1998, p. philosopher on the throne”. 70). As an object of cultural mythologizing in the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire spawned a Voltaire – number of onomomyths, whose analysis in the plenipotentiary minister of hell literary consciousness of Russia in the second The second onomomyth about Voltaire half of the 18th century is the purpose of our in Russia is a cultural myth of Voltaire-atheist, paper. “plenipotentiary minister of hell”. In the context of these ideas Voltaire, being a symbol of the Voltaire as the leader “negation of the existing axiological system” of the Enlightenment acted “as a symbol of freethinking and even and a fighter against religious fanaticism atheism” (Ovchinnikova, 2001, p. 175). The first, closest to the truth onomomyth This view of Voltaire had little to do with about Voltaire in Russia is that he was a great the real work of Voltaire and the personality of writer and leader of the Enlightenment, a French educator. As everyone knows, real Voltaire fighter with medieval feudal superstitions and was never a real atheist. In his poem “On natural religious fanaticism. In Russia, the honour of law”, which was finished with deistic “Prayer”, the “discovery” Voltaire belongs to the Empress he rejects not only the religious fanaticism, but Catherine II, about whom Berdyaev rightly also atheism. The myth of the godless Voltaire said: “Catherine the Great was Voltairienne” resulted from anti-Voltaire propaganda, which (Berdyaev, 1997, p. 17). Correspondence of was inspired simultaneously by the Masons and Catherine II with Voltaire, which lasted until the the representatives of the so-called “national” philosopher’s death is a clear confirmation of this party, led by Count Panin, and which included fact. We can say that in her letters the Russian the writer D.I. Fonvizin. Therefore, Fonvizin’s Empress set a model of an ideal perception of works give a lot of representative material for Voltaire, which was formed in Russian society. the study of the phenomenon of “temptation” by In these letters, Catherine II, on the one Voltairianism. For example, Ivan, a character hand, all the time called Voltaire the greatest in Fonvizin’s comedy “Brigadier” allows naturally writer of his time, and admitted that since 1746 “Voltairian” quotes for himself. He expressed she had not read any other books besides his confidence that “God has left to the human a works, considering them “the last limits of French volition – to love, to betray, to get married and literature” (Philosophical ... correspondence, get divorced” (Fonvizin, 1989, p. 34); he said that 1802, p. 188). “he used to know ... a big set of different people On the other hand, Catherine II creates a who bid defiance to oaths” (Fonvizin, 1989, p.
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