ПИСЬМЕННИЦЬКА МАНЕРА ОЛЬГИ ТОКАРЧУК У СУЧАСНОМУ ПОЛЬСЬКО-УКРАЇНСЬКОМУ ЛІТЕРАТУРОЗНАВЧОМУ ДИСКУРСІ

Abstract

Olga Tokarchuk’s creativity made an impression on readers and critics all over the world, which became the reason for the public’s increased interest in the personality of the Polish writer, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, her philosophical and literary-aesthetic views. In the article, the authors focus their attention on the creative manner of Olga Tokarchuk’s prose heritage. The author successfully realized her creative talent in various genres. In recent decades, the novels, short stories, and essays of the writer have become the object of active analysis by Polish and Ukrainian literary scholars. Among the most important studies are the works of A. Larenta, E. Poremba, P. Slyvinskyi, Y. Kleinotskyi, K. Tsymanov-Sosin, K. Kantner from the Polish side and L. Lavrynovych, L. Bregy, I. Kropyvko, M. Krupka, M. Kulish, K. Rodyka, M. Shulgun from Ukrainian. The corpus of critical works devoted to the personality and creativity of the Polish writer grows with the level of the scientific approach and in accordance with the tasks, ranging from reviews and reviews to dissertation studies and monographs. The article focuses attention on the diversity of consideration of Olga Tokarchuk’s creative work: writing style, philosophical orientation, worldview and writer’s strategies. The relevance of the topics and ideas on which the author focused her attention and their role in the Polish-Ukrainian literary discourse is noted. The authors of the study emphasize that O. Tokarchuk always tries to find meaning in meaninglessness, order in chaos, values and divinity in what is human. She is an optimist, because it seems that, from book to book, she says more and more bravely that life depends most on a person’s inner conviction, and above all on his attitude to reality. Creating his own story, he turns to archetypes, myths and symbols rooted in literature and cultural tradition. The works of Olga Tokarchuk are distinguished by their original creative manner, worthy of presenting to the world not only Polish prose, but also current issues and numerous trends inherent in the artists of modern European literature.