“Without me” by Egor Letov: Text and context

Abstract

© 2020, Universidad del Zulia. All rights reserved. According to the collection of poems, in the poetry of Igor Fedorovich Letov, there was a four-year period (from 1998 to 2001), when not a single poetic text was created. And it was the composition “Without Me” (2002), which became the first written work after a long break and later a part of the album of "Grazhdanskaya oborona" (civil defence) "Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn'" (long happy life) (2004). It was found that this composition fits into the context of Yegor Letov's entire work. The team of authors considers the so-called “texts of death” in which the theme of death is central.