NARRATOR AND NARRATION IN SHORT PHILOSOPHICAL PROSE BY MYROSLAV DOCHYNETS, HALYNA PAHUTYAK, HALYNA TARASYUK

Abstract

The article examines experiments and modifications of the narrator and narrative strategies in the philosophical prose of small genres in Ukrainian literature of the late ХХth and early ХХІst centuries by Myroslav Dochynets, Halyna Pahutyak, and Halyna Tarasyuk. Narratological studies are becoming more and more popular in world literary studies, which investigate the relationship between the author and the narrator, the nature of the narrative, the methods of narration, in particular the object of the narrative that creates an imaginary artistic world. Since the artistic structure of the literary work and the narrative strategies of the author depend on the narrator's position, an analysis of the features of the narrator and narration of small genres of philosophical prose by Myroslav Dochynets, Halyna Pahutyak, and Halyna Tarasyuk was carried out and the peculiarities of their narrative strategies were revealed.It is proven that the narrator in the short philosophical prose of Myroslav Dochynets, Halyna Pahutyak, Halyna Tarasyuk appears as a complex subject of communication, which has various variations present in the narrative, and implements text-forming narrative strategies. It is found that in the individual narrative manner of M. Dochynets, mixed-variable types of narration and a "pure type" of the narrator, which combines homodiegetic and heterodiegetic, partly with the addition of extradiegetic narrative strategies, prevail, a «split» narrator is observed, however, the dominant is the homodiegetic I-narrator and oppositional categories of narrators with variable or complementary functions. It was found that the originality of Halyna Pahutyak's authorial narrative lies in the neo-mythological worldview and experiments with homodiegetic self-narration, heterodiegetic narrator, esoteric narrator, and the organization of the narrative through first-person narration through the prism of subjective experience is used to arouse trust in the reader, to make the narrator an accomplice in philosophical reflections. It was determined that in Halyna Tarasyuk's philosophical short prose there is both a homodiegetic and heterodiegetic narrator, as well as mixed narratives, which are characterized by a free transition from He-narration to I-narration and pawpaka, and even in homodiegetic I-narration the author distances herself from the heroine-narrator.