Color Symbolism in the Works by Elena Guro

This research is devoted to the literary works of Elena Guro within her approach to color. Being the artist and the poet at the same time, Guro worked with color in her unique way, linking it both with problem of vision and the limits of the human perception. The main goal of this paper is to determine the origins of Guro’s conception of color through the historical-biographical approach and intertextual content analysis. Thus, this work concerns not only Guro’s fiction and her journal writing, but also theoretical works and memoirs of the contemporaries in order to recreate the intellectual background of the Russian avant-garde. Moreover, there is a close attention to the scientific progress of that time and to the theosophical movement which definitely had influence on Guro. Color for Guro is much more significant than just an artistic tool, it is one of the fundamental terms of her own philosophy.