Keyword: «nothingness»

The article explores the category of dialogical nothingness as a tool for analysing the chronotopic potential of contemporary song poetry. The specificity of Em Kalinin’s lyrical hero is comprehended in the context of the semiotic vacuum of nothingness and communicative decentration. In the context of comparativism the dialogical potential of the chronotopic zone of nothingness in the lyrics of the XIX–XXI centuries is investigated. It is demonstrated how dialogic nothingness – subject-subject interaction about death – becomes the basis for rethinking traditional communicative strategies. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of ethical and aesthetic masochism revealed through carnivalisation and images of madness. It is established that in the song poetry of Em Kalinin, the dialogical nothingness constructs the lyrical hero as an image of an intersubjective character who realises the dualism of self-presentation and self-destruction.