THE CONCEPT “HOME” IN UKRAINIAN LITERARY MEMOIRS OF 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the concept “home”in the Ukrainian literary memoirs of the 20th century. The object of this study is the literary memoirs works “My Way” by Stepan Vasylchenko, “Autobiography” by Ostap Vyshnia, “Enchanted Desna” by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, “Childhood” by Andrii Zalyvchyi, “Without Roots” by Natalena Koroleva, “The Roads of My Days” by Valeriian Polishchuk, “The Golden Days of the Golden Childhood” and “Autobiography” by Olena Pchilka, “Memoirs” by Sophia Rusova. The article examines two primary meanings of this concept — the home as the building, the house,he place livable in; and the home as the connecting people, the family with its established habits, rules, and traditions. The large family estates, simple peasant houses and urban apartments are the most common types of housing represented in the Ukrainian literary memoirs works of the 20th century. Usually they were at the same time private and public space; training, educational and intellectual centers; the place where different languages, different cultures, different traditions cross. In the Ukrainian literary memoirs of the 20th century the concept “home” is associated with the concepts “family”, “happiness”, “calm”, “comfort”. This concept can be updated in other memoirs as the cold, indifferent and alienated space.