„ВОГНЕННЕ ОКО” СПОКУСИ В ОДНОЙМЕННОМУ РОМАНІ ОЛЕСЯ УЛЬЯНЕНКА
“THE FIERY EYE” OF SEDUCTION IN OLES ULYANENKO’S NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME

Summary/Abstract: The article is an interpretation of Oles Ulyanenko’s novel Fiery Eye on the principlesof corporal-mimetic method for analyzing fiction. Having applied this innovative methodology, theconclusion is reached that the novel is not based on an apocalyptic vision but on a seduction phenomenon.This conclusion disputes traditional critical reflections on Oles Ulyanenko’s literary works.The content of seduction is determined by the correlation between the desire for power, woman, sexand death. They are symbolically echoed by the image of a sky with an enormous eye in the center,blazing with seductive fire. This fire is vivifying warmth and light. According to Oles Ulyanenko,the way there runs through a carnival turning cruelty into mercy, horror into delight, hatred intotenderness, disgust into pleasure, and vice versa.

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