The Incompleteness Phenomenon in Creative Heritage of Lesya Ukrainka

Abstract

. The different scientists’ views on the artistic technique of incompleteness has been systemized in the article. The term «non-finito» has been defined as the aesthetic category that appears in a special type of artistic thinking. The given phenomenon has been traced in Lesya Ukrainka’s literary heritage. Special attention has been paid towards the analysis of the writer's manuscripts that has shown the text endless. The study has determined the paradigm of creative work, which is specific for Lesya Ukrainka’s writing style . Various works of Lesya Ukrainka, namely dramas have been examined in the article in order to substantiate the « incompleteness » conception as a peculiar type of author thinking. The current study has investigated the phenomenon of art intentions in Lesya Ukrainka’s dramatical works , which has been applied in a number of endings. The authors have studied various artistic techniques of non-finito and suggested to divide them into several categories: open text form, intentionality, and ending truncation. It has been indicated in the article that the most revealing work of aesthetics and poetics of non-finito is drama "Autumn Tale" – the most mysterious Lesya Ukrainka’s work. The drama is the brightest and most multifaceted embodiment of non-finito in writer’s creative work. This drama has a reputation of «obscurity» and became an object of different scientific research. Also, it has been noted that one of non-finito techniques in Lesya Ukrainka's works is so-called «truncation» of ending. It is used to both express and crystallize the basic concept of the author's idea. Special attention in the article has been paid to the phenomenon of artistic intention in Lesya Ukrainka's dramas, embodied in a number of extremities. It becomes a characteristic factor of the whole characters’ behavior. The authors emphasize in their article that the drama of intentions, which is realized on the lexical-grammatical, semantic, personal and structural levels, is a characteristic genre form of Lesya Ukrainka's drama and is a specific non-finito factor as a type of the writer's work.