THE THEATER OF M. MAETERLINCK AND UKRAINIAN DRAMATIC ART OF THE EARLY XX CENTURY

Abstract

The topicality of the article is determined by the lack of works in the modern literary criticism devoted to the illumination of the typological links of the dramatic editions of M. Maeterlinck and O. Oles, the need for the development of the Ukrainian discourse in Maeterlinck studies.The aim of the article is to study the typological affinity of symbolist dramatic works “The Blind” by M. Maeterlinck and “Dance the Life” by O. Oles, to reveal basic changes in the structure of dramatic art of the early twentieth century.Was done the attempt to compare Les Aveugles (“The Blind”) by M. Maeterlinck and “Dance the life” by O. Oles on the axis of the specifics of their ideological and aesthetic concepts. The basic changes in the genre structure of the XIX - XX centuries dramatic work are outlined, and the general European and national colours of the development of the symbolist theatre is revealed. It was stated that the concentration of writers’ attention on the disclosure of the internal picture of the world, the movement of the dynamics of development from the actions into the field of psychology, created conditions for a new type of structure of the text, where the ideological, cognitive structure, or the inner plot, is important.It was emphasized that the use by artists of elements of symbolist drama (pessimism, mysticism, irrationalism, conditional chronotope, internal action, analytical composition, subtext, expanded the system of symbols, meta-language, etc.) due not to personal preferences, but above all to their intentions on intellectualism of dramatic art.In order to cover the concept of the symbolist theatre while conducting the comparative analysis the theoretical work of the Belgian writer was involved in the problem field of the study.The article also outlined the fundamental changes in the genre structure of the dramatic work of the late XIX – early XX century, identifies the European and national features of its development. The author underlines the emphasis the writers put on revealing the inner picture of the world, the ways the actions are transformed into the sphere of psychology. All these facts advance the creation of a new fiction in which alongside the ideological and cognitive aspect there is an inner plot.