СВОЄРІДНІСТЬ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЇ ТРАДИЦІЙНОГО СЮЖЕТНО-ОБРАЗНОГО МАТЕРІАЛУ В ПОВІСТІ ВАЛЕРІЯ ШЕВЧУКА «ПЕТРО УТЕКЛИЙ»
THE TRANSFORMATION PECULIARUTY OF THE TRADITIONAL FIGURATIVE MATERIAL WITH THE PLOT IN THE NOVEL OF VALERII SHEVCHUK “PETRO UTEKLYI”

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the transformation peculiarity of biblical-Christian and ancient themes, motifs and images in the novel of Valerii Shevchuk “Petro uteteklyi”. The author investigates the question of artistic dualism of literary work that is a combination of ancient and Christian aesthetic systems, philosophical and psychological dualism of the human's inner world as the reasons of imperfection and involuntary individual’s suffering. In the novel the ancient Greek myth about Oedipus underwent peculiar transformation. The Fatum’s will which draws a picture of not very pleasant fate, weighs heavily on the novel’s hero Petro Znaida as well as on the mythical character. The tense atmosphere of the novel is full of the sense of absurdity. The writer uses the myth of Oedipus as the winding up of plot collisions. The ancient theme of the parricide contaminates with evangelical theme of the Messiah’s death. One common idea of self-discovery, own past, and of the purpose on the earth combines two story complexes. The literary work reveals the idea of eternal repetition: a man is destined to be between good and evil, having the constant right to make choice between two polar values. The novel depicts the transformation of another biblical-Christian material that is the motifs of the original sin, heaven, the first fratricide, Messiah’s advent, betrayal and more. Contaminating biblical and ancient motifs, images and plots in the novel “Petro uteklyi”, Valerii Shevchuk models his own mythical systems, creates its own microworld, corresponding to the parameters of biblical and mythological structures with their universal ability to correlate everything. Using biblical complexes of Christ, Judas and the ancient theme about Oedipus and the motif of Pegasus, the writer creates a national world model.

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