Artistic synthesis of philosophy and history in Diana Ackerman’s Novel “The Zookeeper’s Wife”

Vira Prykhodko; Nataliia Soloshenko-Zadniprovska; Tetiana Viediernikova; Olha Chernenko; Iryna Shulga

doi:10.34069/AI/2022.52.04.13

Vira Prykhodko Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3828-9121
Nataliia Soloshenko-Zadniprovska H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4721-8336
Tetiana Viediernikova H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0139-6169
Olha Chernenko National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» (NTU "KhPI"), Kharkiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7241-5879
Iryna Shulga National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6275-587X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2022.52.04.13

Keywords: Diana Ackerman, ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’, Jewish theme, children of ‘war’.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of Diana Ackerman’s the creativity. She created a touching and extremely objective book ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ showing the people suffering from the humiliation of their human dignity. Diana Ackerman, with endless love and anxiety for her characters, describes what people close to her saw and experienced during World War II. Her novel, imbued with the intense deployment of tragic actions and deeds, does not leave indifferent neither literary scholars, nor readers. The purpose of the article is to analyze the transformation of the characters in Diana Ackerman's novel ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ in the context of the development of the theme of survival in ‘labor camps’, Jewish ‘ghetto’ during the occupation period in European countries. The results of the study are understanding that the novel created is not characterized by the typical image of the main character, but the sketches do not ignore the individual features in the character of the husband, son, friends, her surrounding people, reveal the national features of life. The plausibility of events in occupied Poland of historical significance is being recreated. The study concluded that the novel is the work of life-affirming, performed by a civil and patriotic pathos.

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Author Biographies

Vira Prykhodko, Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture, Ukraine.

Ph.D. in Philology (Candidate of Philological Sciences), Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Languages, Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture, Ukraine.

Nataliia Soloshenko-Zadniprovska, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Ph.D. in Philology (Candidate of Philological Sciences), Associate Professor at the Department of Theory and Practice of the English Language, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Tetiana Viediernikova, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Practice of the English Language, H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Olha Chernenko, National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» (NTU "KhPI"), Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Ph.D in Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural Communication and Foreign Languages, National Technical University «Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute» (NTU "KhPI"), Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Iryna Shulga, National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Ukraine.

Ph.D in Education, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages, National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Ukraine.

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