«Три-же…» від Євгенії Кононенко, або життя, житло, жінка в збірці новел "Празька химера"
Yevheniia Kononenko’s “three zhs”, or zhittya (life), zhytlo (housing) and zhinka (woman) in the collection of short stories "Prague Chimera"

Author(s): Olena Yurchuk, Oksana Chaplinska
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: female prose; gender roles; traumatic experience; immanent otherness; self-irony
Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the collection of Yevheniia Kononenko’s novels "Prague Chimera". They are united by the same concept outlined in the preface. Critics rightly point to the closeness of the preface to Virginia Woolf’s essay "A Room of One’s Own". Although Kononenko’s texts are not about female writers per se, the idea of housing for a woman or a generation of women is their primary theme. The collection is full of irony and self-irony, sharp juxtapositions, mysticism and immersion in human psychology, with the chimeras serving as symbols of the hidden psychological fears and traumas of the protagonists.

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