У статті досліджуються жанрові особливості щоденників Д. Туптала
і Т. Шевченка. Докладно розглядаються особливості авторських наративних стратегій у текстах, орієнтація на конкретного реципієнта.
Осмислюються погляди письменників на долю, творчу працю, релігію
тощо. Аналіз текстів дозволив виокремити такі спільні моменти в
біографічних наративах обох письменників: переосмислення власного
життєвого шляху, інтерпретація окремих фактів біографії у житійному ключі, глибокі екзистенційні роздуми над долею і людським призначенням.
The paper deals with a specific genre of diary in the heritage of D. Tuptalo and T. Shevchenko.
The comparative analysis allowed the researcher to clarify the nature of the genre and
define its basic characteristics. Special attention has been paid to the general features in both
diaries, such as language, orientation towards a future reader, the atmosphere of ‘expectation’.
In both diaries, the authors present themselves as a part of the action and even heroes
of the stories. Th us a description of all events is typically given from the author’s perspective;
the author and the narrator merge in a first-person narrative. The communicative techniques
in the structure of the text are described briefly; these are comparison, evaluative judgments,
the image of the Other, speaking to the reader, etc. The researcher interprets some theses
about writers’ views concerning religion, friendship, and the phenomenon of silence. The
character of such silence in the text is multidimensional: the varieties of literary pause/silence
may be found throughout the diaries; the figures expressing silence belong to several
types. The meaning of silence shift s according to the context. Some specific discoveries are
based on such common features in both diaries as critical thinking, engaging the reader in
the text, deep existential thoughts, digression (a partial retreat from the main theme in the
text). the comparison of Tuptalo’s and Shevchenko’s texts allows seeing how the genre of a
writer’s diary was shaped in Ukrainian literature.
