Intertextuelles und Poetologisches zum „Uznik“ A. S. Puškins

Aleksandr Pushkin's "Uznik" ("The Prisoner") is a complex variation of the poet's confinement topos. The lyric contains intertextual references to Ovid's "Metamorphoses", André Chénier's "La jeune captive" and Lord Byron's "The Prisoner of Chillon" in Vasily Zhukovsky's translation (the latter allow a closer dating of the lyric's emergence than the hitherto assumed period). The sources Pushkin alludes to are closely associated with each other - not only through the common confinement theme, but also through their uniform recourse to classical mythology in the motif choice and through the experience of restriction (banishment, prison, exile), which connected Pushkin with Ovid, Chénier and Byron.