Abstract
The article presents a review of the Ukrainian literary critics’ works on the relationship between literature and cinema, the relevance and effectiveness of the practice of involving cinematic resources in the literary works of Ukrainian writers of the 20th – early 21st centuries. On the material of the novels “Centenarian. Confession on the Pass of the Spirit”, “Svitovan. Studies under the Tent of the Skies”, “Well-Digger. Diary of the Richest Resident of Mukachevo Dominion”, “Highlander. Waters of Our Lord’s Riverbeds”, “Maftei. Book Written with a Dry Pen” by the contemporary Ukrainian writer M. Dochynets traces the problem of inter-artistic interaction of literature and cinema. The purpose of the research is to single out and analyze film frame, montage, shot, perspective, rhythm as integral elements of the cinematic poetics of M. Dochynets ’prose, which are used in the text to reveal the artistic, aesthetic, philosophical and creative principles of the writer. The study used general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison) and literary methods: the systematic approach, hermeneutic method, principles of narratology, intermedia approach. Appealing to the works of O. Chicherin, S. Eisenstein, Yu. Lotman, M. Romm, A. Tarkovsky, etc., the peculiarities of the use of film poetics in the writer’s novels are analyzed. It was found out that in prose by M. Dochynets montage, film frame, shot, rhythm, foreshortening perform intonation-expressive, plot-compositional and characterological functions.
Highlights
Interartistic relationship between Ukrainian literature and cinema became noticeably more active at the beginning of the 21st century thanks to the activities of Mykhailo Semenko, D
Dovzhenko, who in 20–30 years successfully mastered the genre of film storytelling, Development of the Ukrainian literary process of the late 20th – early 21st centuries takes place in a synthesis of arts, which requires writers to appeal to theater, choreography, music, painting and especially cinema, which is gaining a dominant position
Working on the theoretical material on the topic through analysis, synthesis and comparison, we found that in modern literary-critical discourse there is increased attention to the creative work of M
Summary
Interartistic relationship between Ukrainian literature and cinema became noticeably more active at the beginning of the 21st century thanks to the activities of Mykhailo Semenko, D. Dmytro Falkivsky, and others, who realized themselves as screenwriters, teachers of film theory, critics, editors, etc. Dovzhenko, who in 20–30 years successfully mastered the genre of film storytelling, Development of the Ukrainian literary process of the late 20th – early 21st centuries takes place in a synthesis of arts, which requires writers to appeal to theater, choreography, music, painting and especially cinema, which is gaining a dominant position
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