Abstract
During the last few years a significant number of texts covering a huge range of genres have been appeared within the Ukrainian literary community with a purpose to depict the recent wartime events in the east of the country. The prose, written by the combatants, is an important and interesting phenomenon of modern Ukrainian literary process. The use of comic varieties is an integral part of military prose and prose of the combatants, for mocking at the enemy and joking about (making fun of) own problems provides psychological support and helps to hold on in the fight. The ways of using comic varieties in modern Ukrainian prose of the combatants were analysed in the article. The study tested the role of comic elements in these texts. There are a lot of comic varieties in structure of prose of the combatants. Soldiers often describe the military weekdays with humour, especially the funny situations in which they or their brethren-in-arms got. The use of Ukrainian, Russian words, surzhyk and profanity in dialogues is a most popular way to depict comic situations in their prose. This method is used by Martin Brest and K. Mashovec. Combatants use satire and the grotesque too (e.g. the novel by W. Zapeka). In this case, harsh criticism of wartime realities is transmitted using a character-resonator. This reception deepens and contributes artistic diversity to text about the war, helping to avoid banality of presentation. Combatants are also using self-irony (O. Tereshchenko). This way of writing texts allows Combatants to tell about difficult things in a lightweight form. When this happens, the reader should work closely with a text to separate the «joking narrator’s» mask from the real author, whose life is easy only at first glance. Therefore, a text becomes a complex narrative structure.
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