Abstract

The purpose of the article: to research through the prism of comparative-typological characteristics the features of folklore and mythological thinking in the tetralogy novel “On High Uplands” by the Polish writer Stanisław Vincenz and Ukrainian novelists Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Hnat Hotkevich, Rostyslav Yendyk and Mykhailo Lomatskyi in their works about the Hutsul Region. At the center of the study of this comparativist problem is Stanisław Vincenz’s trilogy, its content and form-creating content, its external and internal structure with a completely original author’s ideological and aesthetic consciousness. In order to analyze this work, the prose of both well-known Ukrainian writers («Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors» by Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi and «Mountain Watercolors» by Hnat Khotkevych) and lesser-known writers («Aridnyk’s Laugh» by Rostyslav Yendyk and «Verkhovyna, you are our light...» by Mykhailo Lomatskyi) were selected. Other prose collections of Polish and Ukrainian authors are also contextually involved. Research methodology: comparative-typological, cultural-historical, biographical and hermeneutic study methods were used. Such a methodological synthesis contributes to the identification of similarities and differences in the clarification of the specifics of the folklore-mythological thinking of Polish and Ukrainian novelists in their works about the Hutsul region. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that it is almost the first time that the peculiarities of the artistic thinking of Stanislav Vincenz, Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Hnat Khotkevych, Rostyslav Yendyk and Mykhailo Lomatsky, connected with their use of the folklore and mythological wealth of the Hutsul Region and the Hutsuls, have been clarified. The organic fit of their prose about the Hutsul region into the all-Polish and all-Ukrainian literary process, not only of the past, but of the present, has also been proven: their folklore and mythological thinking, enriched by the literary traditions of neighboring Slavic peoples, has been projected to our days, to the creativity of modern writers. The practical significance of the research is its results, revealed on the basis of rich artistic and literary analysis, can be used both by researchers of Polish and Ukrainian literature, literary experts who study the problems of artistic thinking in the work of each of the named novelists separately.

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