To be perceived. The problem of the V. Kozhelyanko’s novelistic prose classification

Abstract

Each of works by V. Koshelyanko has been occupied a separate place in Ukrainian literature, although the literary fate of each of these works is determined not only by the author or characteristic features of the novel themselves, but also, to a large extent, by questions of classification, perception, labeling and, eventually, by publication. A similar uncertain situation is also observed in the assessment of contemporary critics and literary criticism of the place of creative writing of the writer in the modern literary process. Therefore, there was an urgent need for a comprehensive literary analysis of V. Kozhelyanko's popular novels today, which, in addition to the conclusions about the significance of Bukovinian prose and the aspect of the critical consideration of ten novels of the writer. It will promote a deeper understanding of genre, stylistic, and others functional changes of newmodern, postmodern novels in the literary process of Ukraine. That is what determines the relevance of the article. The purpose of the article is to carry out a comprehensive literary analysis of the basics of Vasyl Kozhelyanko's prose class-ification in the Ukrainian literary space; to identify genrestyle features of his novels, to define genre markers, stylistic characteristics, ideological and thematic content, and to find out the cultural, social and mental significance of V. Kozhelyanko's prose, his place among contemporaries. The choice of methods of resea-rch is predetermined by the general purpose, specific tasks of work and the specifics of the analyzed object. The leading ones, however, are cultural-historical and comparative methods. In general, methodological directions are involved in the work - biographical, historical-comparative, cultural-historical, phenomenological (receptive), structural (structural) analysis. The scientific novelty of the results was obtained that in the article author had made for the first time before the scientific circulation introduced, a new empirical material, which in this volume has not yet been the subject of literary studies; on the basis of the collected material, including the prose works by V. Kozhelanko and foreign authors, it containts a complex monographic study of the trends of the modern novels (among the XX-early ХХІст.) in the Ukrainian literature, which was performed on the example of novels by V. Kozhelanko. Therefore, it is possible to make such conclusions that the prose of V. Kozhelyanka's work is considered in the search for the genrestyle basis for the classification of the great prose of V. Kozhelanko. After analyzing some aspects of prose texts, such as: the image of the national hero, the role of women's images in the prose of V. Koshelyanko, the historian and political figures in the writer's parody prose, the urban novel in the genre-style palette of roman-romantics of the author, the historical and detective novels and the implementation of the chronotop in them as a distinctive genre marker, the emphasis on the mental mistakes of the Ukrainian nat-nation as a leitmotif of the creative intention of V. Kozhelanka, it was create a new classification of his novels. From the point of view of the structural, descriptive, receptive and post-structural approaches of literary science, we have good reasons to speak about V. Kozhelanko's work as a model of good quality prose in the different genre markers.