Ekaterina Andreeva, Vasily Vorobyov

In this article, the authors explore the creative method of Vladimir Aristov on the material of two poems with the involvement of the author’s comments and unique manuscripts. All stages of text creation are tracked. The unusual creative thinkingof V.  Aristov can be called discrete or multi-layered. In fact, each stage of his work on a poem is a separate and autonomous layer, and the creative process itself is presented in the author’s mind as a transition from one level to another. It is shown that each work is created not only in layers, but also in its final version has a multi-level structure, which is clearly reflected by splitting the text into levels using a horizontal dotted line. Finally, layer motifs are also present in the semantics of V. Aristov’s poems (layers of personal memory, layers of history, geological layers, etc.).