IDENTIFICATION COMEDY WITH FOUR UNKNOWNS: UKRAINE – GERMANY – ISRAEL – PALESTINE (IN D. KAPITELMAN’S NOVEL MY INVISIBLE FARTHER’S SMILE)
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2018, Vol 316, Issue 304
Abstract
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of an identity search and constructing manifested through the border experience of the functioning of the Self. The border is defined by the author as a collision of the known and the unknown spaces within a complex feeling of national, civil, cultural, civilization and linguistic affiliation. The research also studies the mechanics of the choice making influenced by "a chosen affinity" within the sphere of the national through the overcoming of the negative experience as well as through the confrontation with traditional ideas about the "inevitability" of the national. The novel demonstrates the further development of the idea of an estranged existence as an attempt to compensate the lost with the help of some missing components. Different approaches of “the old” and “the young” generations living under the conditions of border experience are shown through the use of self-perception models based on the examples of the two generations. Self-affirmation as an independently functioning unit in the public space alongside with the exception of the consensus position is characteristic of the protagonist's search for his own place within the humanistic system of coordinates characteristic for the “western world”. In addition it is worth mentioning that the novel has a certain literary "freshness", and, as some critics point out, represents the characteristic features of both permanent literary tradition and the propensity for journalistic genres.
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B. V. Storokha
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