Стильова своєрідність творчості Олеся Ульяненка

Abstract

Based on hermeneutic and body-mimetic methods, the article makes an attempt to clarify and verify the content of the stylistic originality of Oles Ulianenko’s literary works, one of the most talented and controversial modern Ukrainian writers. It is determined that the concept of «style» can be characterized as a phenomenon that neither exists by itself nor is equal to itself, therefore it is always about a certain interaction of the artist with the era, as well as the artist with the text, also, the text – with the reader, and the reader – with the artist, etc. In such a context, the anthropologizing of the concept of «style» becomes quite obvious, which almost perfectly fits into the principles of the body-mimetic method to analyze artistic works. It is noted that the plot basis of the majority of the artist's works is the numerous deaths of the characters, which are frequently not only victims of violence or tragic circumstances, but at the same time also cause the death of others. In connection with everything mentioned above, the conclusions have been drawn, according to which, firstly, for Oles Ulianenko, the style is a desperately persistent attempt to understand something that is basically impossible to understand. Secondly, this attempt itself acquires considerable weight, because it is, by default, extremely productive, and its productivity is actually based on unreachability and infinity, which alone are capable of denying the finiteness of this strange creature, namely a man, whose mysterious fate has haunted literature for ages. Thirdly, by means of style, literature sets the task of providing the «spiritualization of sensuality», which is «called love», and which «constitutes a great triumph», since «the second triumph is our spiritualization of enmity» (J. Derrida). On the other hand, the style of Oles Ulianenko can be defined as one of the postmodern type, which, due to the double coding inherent in this style, can be perceived either as an example of mass culture aimed at the naturalistic depiction of corporal and social horrors or as a basis for ethical preaching warnings against the threats of temptation, debauchery, and immorality, as well as a sample of extremely deep intellectual and philosophical prose, which exclusively through its corporal-spiritual artistic articulation tries to overcome contradictions that are fundamentally impossible to overcome, besides, to reach such truth that cannot be reached by anyone under no circumstances.