Аннотация:The article attempts to trace the influence of Semyon Ludvigovich Frank in the critical literary practice of Vladimir Nikolaevich Ilyin. Ilyin explicitly refers to Frank in articles devoted to the work of Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Konstantin Sluchevsky, Alexander Blok. Also, the positions of the two thinkers converge in addressing the heritage of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In the work about Pushkin, Ilyin relies on Frank's position given in the article "Pushkin as a Political Thinker". Frank’s metaphysics and his argumentation, which affirms the reality, the non-illusory nature of the spiritual layer of being along with its visible layer (which coincides, according to Frank, with common sense), turn out to become the basis for Ilyin's interpretation of the image of Svidrigailov in the novel "Crime and Punishment". Poetry of Konstantin Sluchevsky is considered by Ilyin in the light of Frank's doctrine of being as a "transfinite reality." The poetry of Alexander Blok is analyzed by Ilyin in the light of the Frank’s phenomenology of religious experience, which in turn merges with the phenomenology of aesthetic experience. The article offers conclusions: (1) in the works of Ilyin the metaphysics of Frank becomes foundation and optics for the interpretation of literary texts; (2) Vladimir Ilyin’s articles can, in turn, be considered as a historical and philosophical commentary on the legacy of Semyon Frank.
