АРХІТЕКТОНІКА ОНІРИЗМУ В РОМАНІ ОЛЕСЯ ІЛЬЧЕНКА МІСТО З ХИМЕРАМИ
ONEIRISM ARCHITECTONICS IN OLES ILCHENKO’S NOVEL MISTO Z KHYMERAMY

Summary/Abstract: The present article analyses the methods of the artistic shaping of oneiric elementsin Oles Ilchenko’s novel Misto z khymeramy (2009). The novel narrates the story of VladislavGorodetsky, an extraordinary personality and a famous architect. The goal of the study is to identifythe oneiric fragments in the text, and define their narrative peculiarities and functional load usingoneiric terminology. Ilchenko’s oneirisms have still not received enough attention in the Ukrainianliterary criticism, which proves the topicality of our research. Summarizing the results of the analysis,we note that the novel includes the fragments of dreams, sleepy fantasy, minimized delirium records,as well as many pieces of ‘encrypted’ information about the fact that certain characters have certaindreams, mostly nightmares. When describing the above oneiric states, the author chooses a narrativetechnique of dreams reading by a non-diegetic narrator from the (sub)consciousness of characters.Gorodetsky’s dreams and visions imply his psychological status, internal struggle, sometimes theycontain prophecies which influence the course of the story. In general, his dreams and visions are themain compositional elements that serve the functions of the intensification of the mystical modus ofthe text and the creation of the fragment of “Kyiv myth”.

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