МУЗЕЄФІКАЦІЯ ДІЙСНОСТІ ЯК РИСА ПОСТМОДЕРНІСТСЬКОГО СВІТОГЛЯДУ: ОБРАЗ МУЗЕЮ В РОМАНІ О. ТОКАРЧУК “БІГУНИ”
MUSEUMFICATION OF REALITY AS A FEATURE OF THE POSTMODERNIST WORLDVIEW: THE IMAGE OF THE MUSEUM IN THE NOVEL “FLIGHTS” BY OLGA TOKARCZUK

Summary/Abstract: Active expansion of the functional area of contemporary museums allows us to speak about museumfication – of history, of culture and its particular phenomena. Collecting, inventorying, quoting, archiving, which are some of the key cultural procedures of today, are the essence of the phenomenon of museumfication that expands over our everyday culture and experience. The article is dedicated to the museumfication of reality as an artistic practice and as distinctive feature of the postmodernist worldview. The purpose of the article is to identify the peculiarities of the literary interpretation of the phenomenon of the museum in the novel “Flights” by O. Tokarczuk. Museum is one of the emblematic images of the postmodernist ideological and aesthetical paradigm. Moreover, in this paradigm museum functions as a universal metaphor and a specific model of the world. The novelty of the article is determined by the fact that the first time the image of the museum as one of the key elements of the artistic world in the works of O. Tokarczuk is analysed. Research methods: descriptive, cultural historical, analysis, synthesis of information. Conclusions. The artistic practices of the museumfication take an important place in the novel “Flights” by O. Tokarczuk. It is noteworthy that these practices are not only present at the thematic level of the novel, but the authoress herself employs them in her work, composing “Flights” as a kind of an imaginary museum, a collection of narratives. The image of the museum in the novel embodies a number of features that are distinctive for the postmodern ideological and aesthetic paradigm: the principles of fragmentariness and constellation, implementing baroque naturalistic aesthetics, formal and thematic antagonism in relation to coherent grandnarratives, artistic modeling of the world in the form of panopticon, etc.

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