| Popis: |
This chapter begins by telling the story of Pavel Rybnikov and the development of his story of listening. Drawing on Antonio Gramsci's idea of the contrast between the traditional and the organic intellectual, it relates his account of night-time eavesdropping to his work as a government bureaucrat during his time in exile. The chapter also describes the rise of the concept of hypnogogic perception in other countries in the midcentury. Epic singers in other times and places, as they compete for attention with other performers, claim some of the status of the heroes whose stories they relay. When Rybnikov told his story about hearing Sadko, who heard messages in his dreams, he claimed to be a hero of a similar kind: his encounter with the byliny was not the impersonal conveying of a tradition but a performance as creative and distinctive as those of Sadko and Leontii Bogdanovich. |
