НОВЕЛА ДЕНИСА ЛУКІЯНОВИЧА “БІЛІ НАРЦИЗИ В’ЯЛИ” В АСПЕКТІ ЖАНРУ ТА СТИЛЮ
DENYS LUKIYANOVICH'S SHORT STORY “WHITE DAFFODILS WITHERED” IN TERMS OF GENRE AND STYLE

Summary/Abstract: The article considers Denys Lukiyanovich's short story “White Daffodils Withered” in terms of its genre and style specifics, motives, image system. The purpose of the research is to reveal the significance of the work for understanding the peculiarities of the literary process of the early twentieth century. The urgency of the investigation is due to the fact that the work “White Daffodils Withered” is not studied at all and is not involved in the literary context. This little-known text was first analyzed in terms of the peculiarities of combining in the author's creative style features of several trends, including Impressionism, Expressionism and Naturalism with their inherent stylistic markers, which is a novelty of the study. It is also compared with those samples of Ukrainian prose of the XIX-XX centuries, which have similar artistic features and are close in theme. Research methods. The article is based on the use of a systematic approach to the object of study. This approach involves the use of traditional descriptive method and its key techniques: observation, interpretation and generalization (to clarify the originality of the author's style of D. Lukiyanovich, its connection with the code of contemporary literature). Also, in order to compare D. Lukiyanovych's artistic sample with other materials (scientific and artistic), the method of contextual-interpretive analysis is used: thanks to him the status of D. Lukiyanovych's work is established in relation to other artistic samples, its place in sociocultural context, not to mention author's ideas, motives and goals, general content of questions etc. Conclusions. It is concluded that in terms of genre specifics, this work is close to a short story, namely “mood short story”, it is an original manifestation of the writer's creative style, which in this case is the syncretism of stylistic, genre and generic features.

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