У статті аналізуються фрагменти з незавершеного роману Юрія
Косача «Сеньйор Ніколо», присвяченого історії Миколи Гоголя, у контексті українського гоголівського дискурсу ХХ ст. З’ясовується своєрідність Косачевого розуміння Гоголя, наголошується на світоглядних
аналогіях письменників.
In the context of the Ukrainian Gogol discourse of the 20th century, the paper analyzes
fragments from the unfinished Yurii Kosach’s novel “Seignior Nicolo”, which deals with
the history of Mykola Gogol, The researcher focuses on the peculiarities of Kosach’s understanding
of Gogol and the worldview analogies of the two writers.
the concept of symbolic autobiography is understood as a manifestation of the author’s
self through the image and history of the other. Presenting the Roman episode in Gogol’s
biography, Yurii Kosach tells his own symbolic story, and this relationship between fictitious
and real stories functions as a certain way of the author’s symbolic self-representation in his
text and through the text.
the incomplete Yuri Kosach’s novel about Gogol is considered in the context of ideological
discussions about the national and cultural identity of the writer, as a component of
Gogol discourse in Ukrainian literature of the 20th century, The problem of Gogol’s duality,
understood in ideological and psychological aspects, manifests a worldview split of Yurii
Kosach himself, his own drama. Yuri Kosach’s re-thinking of Gogol’s figure must have been
an attempt of destroying two main ideological myths: the Russian-imperial, based on the
Soviet, socialist-realist Gogol’s cult, and the colonial one, rooted in the Ukrainian populist
tradition.
In addition, the paper pays attention to the sources of Kosach’s novel and clarifies the
historical and psychological contexts of its creation, as well as its inter- and midtextual relations,
both with Kosach’s works and Gogol discourse as a whole. It is argued that in the
history of Gogol the writer considered the problem of cultural colonialism, both in the political
and psychological aspects, in particular the problem of Gogol’s sexuality, ‘fear of sex’,
which is associated with colonial subordination and the loss of masculinity.
the main personal manifestation of Gogol in the novel by Kosach is a migrant, i. e.
a man without ground, an artist without a motherland, The history of Gogol in Rome is
examined through the relation of “Seignior Nicolo” to Gogol’s “Rome”, a comparison of the
Roman text in Gogol’s and Kosach’s works.
