Interpretation of the “The Kiev Pecherskyi Paterikon” in Valeriiy Shevchuk’s Novel On a Humble Field Cover Image

Interprétation du « Paterikon des grottes de Kiev » dans le roman de Valeriy Chevtchuk Dans un humble champ…
Interpretation of the “The Kiev Pecherskyi Paterikon” in Valeriiy Shevchuk’s Novel On a Humble Field

Author(s): Anamaria Gavril
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Ukrainian Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: “Kyiv-Pechersk Lives of Holy Fathers”; Valeriiy Shevchuk; hagiography; pre-text; interpretation; transformation; primary source; inter-text; psychology; narration;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes Valeriiy Shevchuk’s novel In the humble field... (“Na poli smyrennomu…”) as a pre-text to the “Kyiv-Pechersk Lives of Holy Fathers”. It has been studied that, starting from the original source, the writer modernizes his work, uses new plot lines, psychologizes historical characters, striving to consider them as ordinary people, full of deep feelings and passions. Reinterpreting the pretext, the modern author uses it at the level of the intertextual game, somehow ironizes its content and introduces the ideas of the primary source in the contemporary moral-ethical context.

  • Issue Year: XXXIII/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 173-185
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French
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