ЕКЗИСТЕНЦІЙНІ ВИМІРИ РОМАНУ У ВІРШАХ ЛІНИ КОСТЕНКО МАРУСЯ ЧУРАЙ
EXISTENTIAL DIMENSIONS IN LINA KOSTENKO’S VERSE NOVEL MARUSIA CHURAI

Summary/Abstract: Lina Kostenko’s verse novel Marusia Churai is a unique phenomenon in the Ukrainianliterature and has an inexhaustible potential for research. This paper is dedicated to Lina Kostenko’s90thbirthday. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the question has not been adequatelyexplored, since the existential dimensions of this work have received only fragmentary attentionor have been briefly touched upon. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyze existentialbasis of the work by the case of Marusia Churaivna. The research stream is “literature studies”, “thephilosophy of literature”. On the basis of existentialist methodology introduced by a Danish philosopherS. Kierkegaard (later developed by A. Camus, J.-P. Sartre etc.), we can claim that both theanalyzed novel itself and its protagonist in particular possess major existentialist features expressingdeep poetic inner philosophy, which results in changes of outer existence. We can actually speakabout Marusia Churaiivna’s paradigm of existence which forms her spiritual essense, personal (andim-personal) view on life (as “Me”-in-myself) and which she managed to live through: love/betrayal/pain/loneliness/otherness)/death.

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