Candidate of Philology, Senior Researcher of the Department of Literary Studies, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The review presents a monograph whose author examines the artistic world of the writer, philosopher, theater critic, art historian, archaeologist, theologian and teacher Sergei Nikolaevich Durylin as a system; determines the place of such an extraordinary figure as Durylin in the literary process of the first half of the twentieth century; emphasizes the role of the marginal complex in his work; systematizes information about his lifetime publications and unpublished texts in archives; introduces into scientific use almost twenty works by Durylin, his letters, diaries.
Sergei Durylin; prose; symbolism; modernism; marginality; easterness.