ALEXANDER PUSHKIN’S SHORT DRAMA "MOZART AND SALIERI" IN THE LIGHT OF PERSONALITY THEORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY

The author leads us to believe that the Pushkin's tragedy "Mozart and Salieri" is a testament to the remoteness of Pushkin at the turn of the 1820s?1830s from Byron’s poetization of pride and headstrongness. The semantic structure of Pushkin's tragedy corresponds to the spirit of Christianity, is consistent with its dictates and commandments, deeply related to those theories of the 20th century, which considered personal existence as a free-responsible human involvement in being, associated not just with worries, sadness, compassion, and the experience of wickedness, but also with joy and gaiety of spirit. Thus, the assonance between west European and Russian philosophy of the 20th century and Russian classical literature of the 19th century is revealed.