Vol. 13 No. 80 (2024)
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Features of the poetics of contemporary antiutopia (based on the of the trilogy “The Time” by Yuri Shcherbak)

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  • Olena Ishchenko,
  • Larysa Horbolis,
  • Olena Bondarenko,
  • Iryna Zhylenko,
  • Inna Havryliuk
Olena Ishchenko
Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine.
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Larysa Horbolis
Sumy State Pedagogical University, Sumy, Ukraine.
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Olena Bondarenko
Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine.
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Iryna Zhylenko
Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine.
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Inna Havryliuk
Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.80.08.11

Published 2024-08-30

Keywords

  • character, genre, antiutopia, problems, poetics, literature, Christianity, culture.

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Ishchenko, O., Horbolis, L., Bondarenko, O., Zhylenko, I., & Havryliuk, I. (2024). Features of the poetics of contemporary antiutopia (based on the of the trilogy “The Time” by Yuri Shcherbak). Amazonia Investiga, 13(80), 122–130. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.80.08.11

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of genre specificity, means of artistic modeling of the image of the main character, and the problem-thematic section of Yu. Shcherbak’s “The Time” trilogy as important poetic features of the contemporary antiutopia. The analysis was carried out using general scientific (analysis, synthesis, description) and special literary methods (biographical, genetic, imagological and hermeneutic). The research emphasizes the antiutopian dominant of “The Time” trilogy, which is combined with certain features of a political novel, cautionary novel, fiction (elements of science fiction), adventure novel, detective story, etc. It was found out that in his antiutopias Yu. Shcherbak creates his own model of the character of the future, whose leadership qualities, life experience and orientation to traditional Ukrainian values enabled spiritual renewal, contributed to finding one’s place in the world and helped to become a winner in the eternal conflict “man-system”. It was determined that the problem-thematic level of the novels is understood through the disclosure of the inner world of the main character with the help of monologues, dialogues, reflections, etc. In the trilogy, the “eternal” philosophical and topical problems of today are actualized.

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