У статті розкрито особливості зображення в художніх та публіцистичних творах О. Гончара
представників інших народів. З'ясовано специфіку рецепції й репрезентації етнообразів та
інокультурних реалій у контексті парадигми “Я – Інший”, “Свій – Чужий”. Простежено творчу
трансформацію вражень О. Гончара від поїздок у різні країни, художнє втілення в його творах
особливостей пізнання та сприйняття угорців, словаків, чехів, японців, китайців, індійців,
португальців, американців, німців, ромів та ін.
The paper deals with the representation of other nations in fiction and journalism by O. Honchar.
The specificity of reception and representation of the ethnic characters and other-culture realities is
considered in the context of the paradigms “Me – Other”, “Own – Alien”. The paper surveys creative
transformation of O. Honchar’s impressions from his trips in different countries, resulted in literary
embodiment of perceptive peculiarities noticed by the writer in Hungarians, Slovaks, Czechs, Japanese,
Chinese, Indians, Portuguese, Americans, Germans, Gypsies and others. The representation of the
Other’s ethnic mentality in fiction and journalistic publications by O. Honchar helps in understanding the
range of the writer’s literary paradigms, reveals his ideological and creative accents and contributes to
considering the author as a writer of European tradition. Different imagological aspects in the texts by
O. Honchar were interpreted using the markers of ethnic identification: mental values, history, culture,
science, economy, nature. In the context of the war theme O. Honchar depicted ethnic peculiarities
of Hungarians (“Spring behind Morava”, “Foothold”) and Slovaks (“Modry Stone”). The other-culture
realities in Czechoslovakia, China, Japan, and America were described in the genres of essay and
sketch. In essays “On the Land of Camões” and “The Shore of His Childhood” the reception of the
Other is given in the characters of glorious writers representing their nations. Based on the analysis of
text it may be stated that fictional and journalistic discourse of O. Honchar has such special features
as distinctive author’s voice, stereotype-free reception and interpretation of the ethnic images and
other-culture realities, destructed opposition in representation of the paradigms “Me – Other”, “Own –
Alien”, emphasis on the main human values.
