Історична проза Юрія Косача 1940 – 1980-х років

Abstract

У статті проаналізовано історичні твори Ю. Косача “Рубікон Хмельницького”, “День гніву”, “Володарка Понтиди”, “Чортівська скеля” та ін. Історичні романи розглянуто з позиції появи нових тем, образів, жанрово-стильових інновацій. Оскільки на сьогодні романістика Ю. Косача 1960 – 1980-х років практично не вивчена, то увага зосереджується саме на ній.

The paper offers a detailed examination of the historical literary texts by Y. Kosach “Rubicon of Khmelnytskyi”, “Day of Anger”, “Mistress of Pontis”, “Devil Rock” etc. The historical novels have been interpreted with emphasis on their themes, images, genre and stylistic modifications. As the novels written by Y. Kosach in 1960–1980 haven’t been studied yet, the main attention is paid to them. The researcher observes the change of genre and composition features in the works by Y. Kosach from the 1960s to 1980s. It was a period of active compositional search of the writer who used such techniques as psychological portrait of the hero, the combination of historical background with fictional episodes. The paper investigates alternative versions of historical events, used by the writer, the ways of reproducing the epoch of the 17th–18th centuries at different levels: ideological, cultural, political. Y. Kosach wrote his intellectual prose for a thoughtful educated reader. Numerous refined dialogues in the novel remind the works of such ‘Executed Renaissance’ authors as V. Pidmogylnyi, M. Ivchenko. The analysis of the compositional features of structure, the images, the stylistic and artistic tasks of the author allows us to speak about such varieties of historical novels by Y. Kosach, as historical adventure, historical-philosophical, historical-psychological and historical-social novel. The stylistics of Y. Kosach’s works is synthetic and extremely diverse: it is a combination of impressionistic, expressionist and baroque elements in the individual style of the writer. In general, the author of the novels “Mistress of Pontis” and “Devil Rock” was guided by the traditions of European prose, in particular the French one. The Kosach’s knowledge of psychology and philosophy played the basic role in writing historical novels. Undoubtedly, these works may be considered as a true achievement of the modern intellectual prose, written by the Ukrainian diaspora of the 2nd half of the 20th century.

В статье проанализированы исторические романы Ю. Косача “Рубикон Хмельницкого”, “День гнева”, “Властительница Понтиды”, “Чортивская скала” и др. Исторические романы рассмотрены с позиции появления новых тем, образов, жанрово-стилевых инноваций. Поскольку на сегодня романистика Ю. Косача 1960 – 1980-х годов практически не изучена, внимание сосредоточено именно на ней.