ЕТНОГРАФІЧНІ АСПЕКТИ РОМАНІВ БРАТІВ КАПРАНОВИХ «КОБЗАР 2000. SOFT» ТА «КОБЗАР 2000. HARD»

Abstract

The article analyzes the ethnographic component of the novels of famous modern Ukrainian writers-postmodernists Kapranov brothers «Kobzar 2000. Soft» and «Kobzar 2000. Hard». It is emphasized that «Kobzar 2000» of the Kapranov brothers as one of the three Ukrainian «Kobzars» represents in own way time, modern national and spiritual existence of the people, formulates the original concept of the world, culture and human. The work has absorbed the achievements of Ukrainian culture and, at the same time, introduced something specifically own and modern, because in it the modern Ukrainian world is represented as the authors see it – mystical, full of incomprehensible, and therefore unknowable. In particular, the reader is convinced that life in the cities and villages of Ukraine at the beginning of the XXI century based on traditional Ukrainian mythology and worldview. Is proved the connection of ethnography as one of the features of modern literature with postmodern writing; positive feedback from researchers on the use of ethnographic material in modern works of art. Separated and systematized information contains a rich ethnographic material about domestic, mythological, demonological, customary and ritual culture of modern Ukrainians, their views on the norms of etiquette, the originality of world perception and folk ideas. Highlighted by the authors of the article ethnographic information, which is a kind of modern interpretation by writers Kapran folklore texts and allusions to Shevchenko «Kobzar», based on the classification of O. Yatyshchuk systematized into a generalized table on three approaches: 1) information about the ethnographic properties of heroes; 2) detailed descriptions of subjects, phenomena, customs, rituals of Ukrainians; 3) some mentions of the peculiarities of material and spiritual culture of Ukrainians. It is revealed that the most in the novels of the novel «Kobzar 2000» works, which provide information about the ethnographic properties of heroes (in 15 of the 28 novels). In 7 novels, the authors submitted detailed descriptions of subjects, phenomena, customs, rituals of Ukrainians, and in 6 works there are some mentions of the peculiarities of material and spiritual culture of Ukrainians.