ESCAPE INTO UNFREEDOM OR BORNING THE MAN OF MASS (BY THE NOVEL OF SVITLANA TALAN “ROZKOLOTE NEBO”)

Abstract

The author of the article researches the literature vision of the post-totalitarian memory, based on the most traumatic events of the Soviet pastime. Svitlana Talan’s novel “Rozkolote nebo” is one of those artistic works, which opens before contemporary human unknown pages of the most horrible period of Ukrainian history. Suggested researching work analyses literary peculiarities of the interpretation such facts as losing by the Ukrainian people national identity, history and even rights to be Ukrainians. All these facts are the results of the implementation of the communistic politic on the territory of Ukraine during 1920–1930s. After Erich Fromm’s theory of “escape of freedom” and creation of “mass man” all the events (Holodomor, repression, killing of national elite) which took place at the beginning of the soviet occupation of Ukraine was common for the totalitarian regime.