MEETING WITH THE DOUBLE: THE PHENOMENON OF DOUBLE IN PROSE YURI KOSACH, IHOR KOSTETSKY, VIKTOR DOMONTOVYCH

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the study of the artistic interpretation of the phenomenon of duality in Ukrainian emigration prose, in particular in the works of Yuri Kosach ("The Voice from afar"), Ihor Kostetsky ("The price of a human name"), and Viktor Domontovych ("The tamed haydamak"). The peculiarities of interpretation by Ukrainian émigré writers of the concepts of duality and double, their ideological content and autobiographical overtones are analyzed. Attention is focused on the creation of a system of double characters, the main artistic techniques used by the authors to depict the duality of man and the world as well as inter-textual parallels of the studied texts. Duality is considered in these texts both as a certain motive realized through understanding the phenomenon of duality of a person and the world, and as an artistic device that affects the organization of the work system (figurative, plot, composition). It is noted that in the texts under study, the phenomenon of duality, although it has distinctly romantic features, demonstrates new changes based on modernist artistic means and associated with the problem of identity. It is artistically expressed by such means as the principle of "polar mirroring", the interweaving of "external" and "internal" plots, the sleep as an artistic technique, the motif of the "mechanic man", etc. In the content of the works, it is realized thought an appeal to the theme of taboo, isolated and repressed memory (by Yuri Kosach), the question of name and biography (by Ihor Kostetsky), the problem of the integrity of the human personality (by Viktor Domontovych). It is argued that the phenomenon of duality turned out to be a fairly productive artistic model, which made it possible to identity significant contradictions in the human character and thinking, to realize the complexity and ambiguity of the world and the person in it, their interconnectedness and interdependence.