ВОЛОДИМИР ВИННИЧЕНКО І ВОЛЬТЕР: МУЖЕНСЬКІ “КАЗКИ” І ФРАНЦУЗЬКИЙ ПРОСВІТНИЦЬКИЙ ФІЛОСОФСЬКИЙ РОМАН ХVІІІ СТ.
VOLODYMYR VYNNYCHENKO AND VOLTAIRE: MUZHENSʹKI “TALES” AND THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT’S PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL OF THE XVIII CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the composition of cross-cultural processes, associated with the establishment of “French” novels of V. Vynnychenko on the background of the novel of the Enlightenment (Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau). The purpose of the article is to determine the leading aesthetic components and means of forming philosophical paradigms. The novelty and relevance of the study lies in the fact, that the focus is on the genesis and features of the philosophical and architecture of the “French” novels by Volodymyr Vynnychenko “Leprosy” and “Eternal Imperative” for the first time. Materials and methods. The article uses unique sources, in particular, V. Vynnychenko's diaries and texts of mentioned novels. The basic method, used in the article, is a comparative method, and it is also subject to the principles of anachronistic functional analysis, comparison of creative methods of the novel prose, written by the Ukrainian modernist Vynnychenko and French Enlightenment artists. Conclusions. The concept of philosophical nature of these modernist works is presented, which Vynnychenko clearly marks with a genre experiment, rooted in the philosophical prose of the Enlightenment (Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau). We are talking about the peculiarities of the philosophical manifestation in various forms: a philosophical tale, philosophical dialogue, philosophical novel, as well as the specifics of the realization of philosophical essence in the novel-dialogue, novel-controversy, novelapology. Particular attention is paid to such a genre experiment of Voltaire and Vynnychenko as a philosophical tale with such poetic features as allegory, parable, conventionality, exoticism. The critical optics of the research combines the historical and philosophical specifics of the Enlightenment, on which V. Vynnychenko's novels, the national identity of the writer and his biographical individuality are based.

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