Special novel about Taras Shevchenko ("Shevchenko between the worlds" by Stanislav Rosovetsky)= Особливий роман про Тараса Шевченка ("Шевченко між світами" Станіслава Росовецького)

Polishchuk, V. (2023) Special novel about Taras Shevchenko ("Shevchenko between the worlds" by Stanislav Rosovetsky)= Особливий роман про Тараса Шевченка ("Шевченко між світами" Станіслава Росовецького). Shevchenko Studies (№1(26)). с. 239-257. ISSN 24104094

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The article analyzes the mentioned novel by the famous scientist and writer Stanislav Rosovetsky as a self-sufficient work, as well as in certain typological comparisons of the work with the studio of "Taras Shevchenko. Modern biography" of the same author, and in the context of Shevchenko's life-writing biography, primarily the novels of the last twenty years (the works of Volodymyr Kepych, Zinovii Legky, Konstantyn Tur-Konovalov and Denys Zamrii, Halyna Tarasiuk, Antoniia Tsvid, Oleksandr Denysenko, etc.). The article focuses on the truly original genre solutions of the novelist, which, in their turn, had a direct impact on the organization of the chronotope of the work, on the active use of imaginary and fictional (the same fantastic and mystical) operations, on the originality of the use of documentary as specific features of artistic and biographical literature. It is noted that the analyzed work has sufficiently expressive features of an intellectual novel, primarily due to the versatile erudition of the author. The unique "fantasy" structure of the novel is analyzed, the three main parts of which – three "journeys to the past" of the novel Shevchenko - are defined as alternatives to the real stories of the poet's life, designed, according to the author's version, to "ease" his fate at the Last Judgment. It is noted that, for all the fantasized conventionality of plot collisions, certain episodes of the novel are quite controversial, debatable, or even provocative, particularly written in the "second journey". First, this concerns the author's interpretations of the wellknown story of Shevchenko's relationship with the Hern family and Ensign Isaiev, Taras's interpretation of his own self-portrait "in a dream", in which he is walking along the shore of the Aral Sea, almost naked, showing the poet – the author of the poem "Kavkaz" (!) – willing conqueror of the native population in the Asian steppes. The present "otherness" of novel images of several famous historical figures (Chestakhivskyi, Nekrasov, etc.), an expressive intimate love discourse, as well as balanced artistic summaries regarding the image of Shevchenko, despite the alternative stories created in the novel, are noted.

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