NEOREALISM IN MODERN PROSE ABOUT THE REVOLUTION OF DIGNITY AND THE WAR IN EASTERN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article considers works devoted to the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in eastern Ukraine.

Purpose. The purpose of the proposed study is to analyze the novels of Ukrainian writers (A. Kokotukha, R. Nayda, S. Ukhachevsky, V. Ivchenko, V. Ivanyna), written in the aesthetics of neorealism, to characterize the features of such prose and evaluate it in the context of works on similar topics.

Methods. The following methods were used during the research: descriptive, historical-biographical, comparative-historical (to compare different types of characters and track the dynamics of individual images), available elements of the hermeneutic method, narrative and intertextual analysis, etc.

Results. The research revealed that works written in the aesthetics of neorealism appeared among the array of Maidan-military texts. Their authors, seeking to get to know a person in a difficult transition period, show psycho-emotional changes and understand social metamorphoses in general during social change, military cataclysms and personal crises represent in their works heroes from different social strata in extreme circumstances (Revolution of Dignity and War), revealing through actions the characters of their characters, their psychology and motivation (often irrational essence). It is noted that the historical and social context in these works is really just a background for the analysis of writers of various manifestations of Ukrainian life, as well as for the search for independent of society or individual patterns of existence. Emphasis on social pictures-generalizations is shifted in the works to their comprehension, the microworld of the individual is of interest to the authors as a component of the macroworld of society. It is noted that the appearance in the novels of mythologists fratricide, the Fall, and others. give the works a philosophical connotation, and the emphasized attention to documentary authenticity and deep psychologism testify to the features of neorealism in the texts.

Conclusions. Studies of neorealist works dedicated to the Revolution of Dignity and the war in eastern Ukraine allow us to form a more complete picture of modern Ukrainian literature.