ХРОНОТОП ТАБОРУ В ХУДОЖНЬОМУ ОСМИСЛЕННІ ПРЕДСТАВНИКІВ ПРАЗЬКОЇ ЛІТЕРАТУРНОЇ ШКОЛИ

Abstract

The article highlights the peculiarities of artistic comprehension of the camp chronotope by representatives of the Prague Literary School: Yevgen Malaniuk, Yuri Lypa, Galia Mazurenko, Yuri Daragan. The background for conducting the current study includes the lyric poem ‘U shpitali’ by Y. Daragan (Eng. In the Hospital), epic works, namely the essay ‘Tabir’ by Y. Lypa (Eng. The Camp) and the story of G. Mazurenko ‘Ne tot kozak, khto poborov, a tot kozak, khto ‘vyvernet’sya’...’ (Eng. Not that Cossack, who overpowered, but that Cossack, who ‘will dodge’) and the diary entries. The camp in the works of these authors is regarded as someone else’s space, closed, restricted, isolated and hostile. This space, fenced by the wires, is opposed to the home land as desired, open and inaccessible. The differences in the representation of the camp chronotope by different authors were revealed; it is found that the per- ception of camps for interned soldiers in Poland was influenced primarily by the age of the writer, the duration and place of his detention. The camp in Kalisha favorably differed from other detention places of interned by more well-adjusted life, numerous events in the cultural life, lively activity of the literary and artistic societies. Yevgeny Malaniuk and Yuri Lypa’s impressions about staying in a camp for interned Ukrainian soldiers in Kalisha are compared. The paper reveals that the writers have presented the reflection of the collective and personal experience of staying in the places of reservation, created a series of narratives that confirm the real threat of loss (according to Merab Mamardashvili) of the “ontological rooting in the world”. The difference in the perception of the camps’ conditions by Yuri Lypa and Yevgen Malaniuk is mainly due to the long detention of the latter in Kalisha, as well as the careful search for answers to the question about causes of the tragic defeat in the national liberation struggle, the critical attitude towards their compatriots.