ALLUSIONS IN YURI MUSHKETYK’S HISTORICAL PROSE

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ALLUSIONS IN YURI MUSHKETYK’S HISTORICAL PROSE

Journal Title: Проблеми сучасного літературознавства - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 24

Abstract

Genre modifications of the historical novel and story of XX – early XXI century influenced to the expansion of not only external, but also internal capacity of a literary text. In this regard, the historical prose of famous Ukrainian writer Yu. Mushketyk observe the phenomenon of the interaction between the texts. In connection with it the article is devoted to a detailed study of intertextual relations in Yu. Mushketyk’s historical prose on the level of allusions. The function of the inherited element may execute the plot, the character or the other work’s motive. That’s why an allusion is a kind of hint, a reference to a literary work of the cultural heritage. The study found that the interpenetration of various texts and motives at the level of implicit and explicit allusions identifies the author’s historical works. The writer masterfully interprets well known motives of Bible (the legend about Cain and Abel («Yasa», «Brother against brother», «Night without the dawn»), the legend about Paul and Peter, of the prodigal son («Hetman’s treasure»)) and literary (motive about yevshan-herb («Yasa»), Faust motive ( «Pursuit»)) characters. He reinterprets them masterfully in the context of еру recreated historical events. It is observed that the hints of these motives create in the autor’s historical narrative duality of story, based on the organic combination of the specific situation and the deep subtext. In addition, the intertextual relationship of the author’s texts with the works of other writers on the plot-compositional, thematic and visual levels are observed in Yu. Mushketyk’s novels and stories. The intertextual assimilation to other works, such as artistic texts of I. Bahrianyi, P. Zagrebelniy, G. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, M. Gogol and so on helps to deeper reveal the artistic reality, to understand the human relations in philosophical and psychological keys and to grasp the vital problems of Ukrainian history. The associative relations of this plan, focusing on the relationship with national and world cultural and historical heritage, play a significant role in the process of characters’ creation, the transmission of the atmosphere of the depicted events, and they are the important plot’s elements. The allusions give the writer’s works a sense of duality and the certain encryption of depicted events in close relationship with the traditions of the pasts.

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Nadiya Pavlyuk

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