Історичні матриці сугестивного письма Олекси Стороженка: між естетикою та ідеологією

Abstract

The article describes the creative productivity of the archaic writing style of O. Storozhenko. His creativity have successfully completed the Gogol era in Ukrainian literature and have become a forerunner of the phenomenon that fully developed in the so-called chimeric prose in the twentieth century. The artistic style of Storozhenko’s writing stood out from the rural prose of that period against the background of practical problems, excessive sociologization and populist pathos of the mid-nineteenth century. Instead, accusations of peasantry, ethnography, local exoticism and trivial biography in the context of modern literary approaches are given to a new reading of this national-aesthetic phenomenon as heterogeneous one, imbued with stylistic innovations, invisible fusion of writing with ideology and aesthetics. Storozhenko moved within the old-fashioned way to an updated artistic word using the chimeric unity of folklore, baroque and romantic traditions.