Хворобливий сон Іванди у повісті Олеся Ульяненка "Сєдой"
Ivanda’s Sickly Dream in the Short Story "Siedoi" by Oles Ulianenko

Author(s): Feliks Shteinbuk
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Oles Ulianenko; sleep; illness; consciousness; recovery; death; life
Summary/Abstract: Taking as an example a short though highly expressive story Siedoi by Oles Ulianenko, the article suggests a novel, corporal-mimetic variant of theoretical literary analysis. In it, literary works are researched first and foremost considering their corporal dimension; this method can be defined as a method to analyse the corporal-existential background of the fiction discourse. Using this approach, the conclusion is drawn that the content of Oles Ulianenko’s literary work is determined, in the first place, by the author’s attempt to favour the formation of a controversial discourse on the basis of the sickly dream strategy, whereby gloomy content of the story under analysis is balanced, in a paradox way, with the stream of a sickly dream, which defies pessimism or at least attaches an ambivalent dimension to it, a dimension directed toward both death and recovery, that is to say, life.

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