Abstract
The article discusses correlations between artistic vision and poetics in Vasyl Stefanyk’s novellas. It is argued that the writer’s modernist aesthetic experience left its imprint on his literary works. The author concludes that the writer’s artistic vision followed a dynamic course of development correlating with the poetics of the novella and enriching the stylistic color scheme of his narrative prose.
Highlights
The poetics of Vasyl Stefanyk’s narrative prose has so widely been discussed in research papers on literary criticism that it will take several volumes to publish them
As a matter of fact, Vasyl Stefanyk belongs to the generation of writers who lived at the turn of the 20th century and who managed to abandon kitchen-sink ethnography, raising Ukrainian literature to the highest standards of excellence that existed at the time
This paper has examined the poetics of Vasyl Stefanyk’s novella, and the findings suggest a number of conclusions
Summary
The poetics of Vasyl Stefanyk’s narrative prose has so widely been discussed in research papers on literary criticism that it will take several volumes to publish them. As a matter of fact, Vasyl Stefanyk belongs to the generation of writers who lived at the turn of the 20th century and who managed to abandon kitchen-sink ethnography, raising Ukrainian literature to the highest standards of excellence that existed at the time This superb master has created a novel type of flash fiction – laconic but capable of giving a profound social and psychological analysis of reality. There is an obvious need for a comprehensive account of the founding principles of the writer’s artistic vision in general, as well as of the synthesizing relationship between realist and modernist artistic practices It is for this reason that any claims about the influence of Young Poland on the writer’s consciousness, during the Krakow period of his literary career, must be regarded with some reservations. The nature of the subjective in Vasyl Stefanyk’s narrative vision is so prominent and overwhelming that it characterizes the impressionistic concentration on the aloofness and tragedy of an individual who is faced with the hostility and disharmony of the surrounding world, “depicted with the help of the poetics of moral shock” [6]
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