The Concept Life Creation In Bely's Symbolism Theory

Andrey Bely(?????? ????I? 1880-1934)was not only an outstanding novelist and poet in the Russian Silver Age,but also the most important theorist in the Symbolism school of the Silver Age.He established a comprehensive set of Symbolism theory by combining philosophical,religious and aesthetic aspects,and elevated symbolism to the height of worldview.Creating Life is the most crucial concept in the system of the Symbolism theory by Bely.By creating the concept of Life Creation Bely tried to break the barrier between the real life and artistic text.He regards the living as an aesthetic category and believes life itself is creation;meanwhile he endowed the art creation the mission to change the living and integrates the living and creation into the symbolic art.The concept of Creating life means the Symbolism transcends the aesthetic category and shoulders the mission of creating new people,creating new life,and leading to the sacred and eternal finally.In Bely's world,Symbolism has become an all-encompassing philosophy-aesthetics and even moral paradigm,pointing out the direction which guides the development of the new art and new world.We focus on the concept Creating Life as the research object,which is of great significance for understanding the theoretical system of Bely and the spiritual connotation of the entire Russian symbolism movement.Bely's concept of Creating Life is rooted deeply in the philosophical aesthetics.The Romanticism attempts to construct an organic unity of life and art,which provides the theoretical paradigm for Creating Life.The reason why Bely could transcend over the romantic view on the creation and life view lay on his absorbing the aesthetic philosophy of Solovyov and Nietzsche.Solovyov's concept of Sohornost provides the possibility of integrating the life and creation,while Nietzsche's music Aesthetics and Superman theory provide the possibility that the art can change the world.Bely's concept of Creative Life is responding to the common aesthetic pursuit of the Russian symbolists,and eventually become the universal rules of Russian symbolism.Bely showed the concrete connotation of the concept Crecating Life from three aspects of Symbolisms as a Worldview,Music as a Comprehensive Art.and Language as Witchcraft.He not only regarded symbolism as a way to understand the world,but also believed that it is the Symbol art that creates the external world and real life,thus he defined the symbolism art as the art of creating life.Bely regarded music as the highest art form and the synthesis of all forms of art.which really breaks the boundaries between art and life and contains the ideal of reshaping the spirit of the world.Finally.Bely divides words into creative 'live words'and analytical 'dead words'.He pointed that living words are theurgy because only when we name the world by living words,the world exists.The creation of language is the basic driving force for the realization of the ideal of Creating Life.Bely's concept of Creating Life runs through his poetry,novels and other literary creations.His collection of poems,"The Gold in the Sky," "The Ashes," and the novel "The Silver Dove," are typical works that show the elements of Creating Life in their creations.