Личность и прием: Окуджава, Высоцкий, Галич

The article is based on the hypothesis that in a poet's artistic system there is a dominant device that can be found on all levels of the text. This device is closely related to the poet's psychology and biography. Surveying the work of the three main representatives of the bard song (“author song”), the author holds that Okudzhava's poetics is determined by the “harmonized shift” (“garmonizirovannyj sdvig”), which corresponds with his emotional, hedonistic view of life. Vysotskii's poetics is characterized by semantic ambiguity, conflicting meanings, in accordance with his “dramatic” behaviour. Galich's poetics is that of choice, antithetical characters, a particular selection of lexical elements. His political choice, decisive for his fate, is the ontological equivalent of his work.