Abstract
A historical novel is a work that is based on a historical plot, built on the reproduction in the artistic form of a certain historical epoch, a certain period of the people's or the country's past. In view of this, in a historical novel, historical truth must be combined with artistic truth, historical facts with artistic fiction, real historical figures with fictional characters.The postmodern ideology of the multiplicity of meanings, the hesitation in determining the differences between the false and the true, justify today's increase in interest in history and the historical novel as a modern textual reflection of the past. The study considers the artistic interpretation of the genre of quasi-historical postmodern novel on the material of the text “The UnSimple” by T. Prokhasko. The genre features of the text are determined, in particular inscribing a variant of an event to a certain historical epoch, defining national features with the help of a pseudo-historical plot, creating a geographical utopia and avoiding linearity, rooting a person in a new geographical landscape as a strategy ofhistorical discourse reconstruction.
Highlights
The formation of the historical novel was marked by temporal dimensions from antiquity to the present
The problem of interaction of factual and fictional planes occupies a central place in the quasi-historical novel, the specificity of which lies in the author's transformation of real events into fictional ones
The heroes of the novel “The UnSimple” feel and accept the call of a related topos and adjust their lives according to it: “...saw the place where felt on the spot – related and happy
Summary
The formation of the historical novel was marked by temporal dimensions from antiquity to the present. The Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Realism, and Modernism contributed to the development of the historical novel genre. The development of the genre of historical novel directly influenced the formation of modifications and transformations of its species. A writer, unlike a historian, can defend his position basing on facts, but on creative fiction, intuitive discoveries. This is especially noticeable in the postmodern historical novel, where the documentary takes the form not of a historical fact, but of a fact of the era
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