REVOLUTION VS EVOLUTION: DYNAMICS OF MODERN UKRAINIAN LITERARY PROCESS

Abstract

The article analyzes the themes and issues of modern Ukrainian literature in the context of the concepts of “evolution” and “revolution”. It is systematized basic features and phenomena of contemporary literary process in Ukraine such as festivals, literary community, public discussions, critical reviews in the media.
It is examined peculiarities of the development of subjects and problems of Ukrainian literature in the 1980s and early 2000s, formulated two models for the development of modern Ukrainian literature. are formulated.
The first model is focused on the national narrative and display of the traumatic experience of the Ukrainian nation in the 19th-20th century, the search for identity and lyrical and psychological reflection in prose. The second model is focused on social narrative and experience of feelings on social events of 1980-1990s, the neorealism as dominant stylistic prose. The created model for the development of modern literary process makes it possible to determine those tendencies that were relevant for the literature of Ukraine in the 1980s-1990s, as well as those that will become leading in the 2000s. The author emphasizes the fundamental continuity of the aesthetic experience of the sixties and the generation of the 1980-1990s, an expressive difference between the aesthetic experience of the generation that came into the literature in the 2000s.