Abstract

The article analyzes Satunovsky’s poems from the 1960-80s through their “relationship” with publications in Soviet newspapers. Satunovsky does not deconstruct political discourse but seeks opportunities for the political self-expression organic to his everyday life context. He does not stay within the bounds of Soviet political discourse either. His political judgments are pronounced using a non-universal language that is defined by a specific existential and historical understanding of the world. Satunovsky’s ongoing debate with the newspaper allows him to articulate the political side of his individual and yet highly typical day-to-day life experience, and thus to establish political agency outside of Soviet political discourse.