TY - JOUR AU - Бузов, Антон PY - 2018/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - “THE MAD PACT” AS A STORY OF ONE INITIATION: VITALY BENDER’S SHORT STORY “THE SECRET” IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MODERNIST SEARCH OF THE AUTHOR JF - Літературний процес: методологія, імена, тенденції JA - LPMIT VL - IS - 12 SE - Питання поетики DO - 10.28925/2412-2475.2018.122 UR - https://litp.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/436 SP - AB - <p>The article presents a vision of Vitaly Bender’s text as an attempt at self-identification of a Ukrainian<br />emigrant in the discourses and post-war European exile. Particular attention is focused on the reproduction<br />of the existential initiations of representatives of Ukrainian emigration in a foreign mental space.<br />It is noted that the emigration dimension of the life of Ukrainians in the middle and second half of the 20th<br />century is determined by the presence of such ideological dominants as the desire to rediscover lost identity<br />under exile conditions. It is emphasized that to achieve this goal, the heroes of Vitaly Bender’s works<br />not only resort to confrontation with assimilative tendencies, but also strive to return to the European<br />mental and cultural context without losing their own self. The life of the emigrant in the writer’s artistic<br />vision appears as a continuous existential initiation in the new space, thus it can be argued that<br />the work of Vitaly Bender is an organic component of the general artistic and philosophical discourse<br />of the Ukrainian writer diaspora of the postwar period. It is a question of the traditional model of the fable<br />organization of a literary work. The initial phase in this system is the phase of isolation. At this stage,<br />the spatial and temporal characteristics of the work, its key actors, are singled out. The second phase —<br />the phase of partnership — is manifested in the novel at different stages in the development of its plot.<br />It is realized through the establishment of new intersubject connections, in particular, the acquisition<br />by the hero of “helpers” or “wreckers”. The transition to the liminal stage symbolizes the beginning of a<br />direct confrontation with death. The phase of transformation is a complex of spiritual changes of the main<br />characters after the death test.The article considers the vertical dominants of Vitaly Bender’s novel<br />“The Secret” as exemplary in relation to the modernist searches of the author of the work. The analysis<br />of the story at the plot level. In the work, the phases of isolation, establishment of partnership, and death<br />testing are sequentially highlighted. The use of classical plot schemes in the study of the literary heritage<br />of Vitaly Bender makes it possible to more fully reveal not only the universal pathos and humanistic<br />focus of the novel text, but also its ideological and aesthetic originality. It is noted that in the specified<br />work the author reveals a special dimension of the initiation of a Ukrainian emigrant in a foreign land<br />- an intimate measurement. It was emphasized that the identity lost in the conditions of emigration<br />is regained through the formation of personal relations of the main characters of the analyzed work.<br />It is concluded that the appeal of Vitaly Bender to this issue is an indicator of his modernist interests.</p> ER -