TY - JOUR N2 - The paper focuses on Osip Mandelstam's Tristia cycle of poems, who proceeded to express the condition of a wronged person in the form of a lament, regret. The key principle of a poetic lament consisted in a contrast, which is why the authors of elegies opted for adopting a linear order, placing the consolatio as the final sequence. Mandelstam puts this linearity into question as an advocate of Bergson's notion of discontinuity of time, allowing to perceive a diversity of phenomena in their systemic manifestations as totally discrete, and yet – also in their wholeness. The linkage between the poet’s output and the philosophy of death, as revealed in Tristia, does not eliminate the notion of consolation, which reflects well Mandelstam's project of creating the language of joy, his vision of the world as a cultural whole, or his pet project of “universal domestication”. This is meant to shift attention to the so-called “things”, that may offer comfort derived from within the very act of experiencing beauty in its sensual dimension. The notion of gentleness is also essential, as it may well offer consolation as an indispensable component of being. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/115709/PDF/2020-01-SOR-04-Stawarz.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/115709 PY - 2020 IS - No 1 EP - 60 DO - 10.24425/slo.2020.132439 KW - consolation KW - Osip Mandelstam KW - Tristia KW - elegy KW - an associative image A1 - Stawarz, Barbara PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN VL - vol. LXIX DA - 2020.05.05 T1 - The Notion of Consolation in Osip Mandelstam's 'Tristia' SP - 47 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/115709 T2 - Slavia Orientalis ER -