Подражательница или предшественница: ...

Abstract: The article deals with the Russian Symbolist author and translator Liudmila Vil''kina (1873–1920). The paper discusses the theme of authority and subjectivity in her collection of sonnets Moi Sad (My Garden, 1906) in the context of West European women''s writing. Vil''kina''s poetry contains topics current in the feminist thought of the beginning of the 20th century. One of them is the question about the language which both enables and hinders the construction of subjectivity. Vil''kina''s poetry can be read as a part of the path-breaking fictional work which preceded the emergence of the postmodern (feminist) philosophy of (female) subjectivity. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]