Child’s world in the work of Modest Levitskyi: the problem of individual and national identity
СВІТ ДИТИНИ У ТВОРЧОСТІ MОДЕСТА ЛЕВИЦЬКОГО: ПРОБЛЕМА ІНДИВІДУАЛЬНОЇ ТА НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ
Keywords: individual identity; national identity; autobiography; memoirs; doctor’s stories
Social and national cataclysms of the early twentieth century are comprehended in the works of Modest Levitsky through the prism of the child’s world. Expressive humanistic pathos and psychologism determine the life stories of his little heroes, affected by the problems of adults ("Happiness of Peysach Leiderman, Good Deed, Hard Road, Niobe, By Law", etc.). In the composition and ideological accents of the instructive story «Petrus’ Dream» a great role is played by dream; the interest of the text is also in the apocryphal story about the sufferings of the crucified Christ and the sparrows is projected on interethnic relations. The plots of the cycle State Children, the story "Schoolmates" have a memoir character.
More...