OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN UKRAINE: GENRE VARIETY AND FICTIOONAL FEATURES OF FLASH EMIGRANT PROSE OF THE 1920S

Abstract

The article researches flash prose genres of little known poets-emigrants of the 1920s, which are reflected in the pages of emigrant magazines. The works, written as stories, short stories, essays and legends, touch on the times of the Bolshevist invasion and the Ukrainians’ miserable life during the post-revolutionary
period. Legends and essays are devoted to the premonitions of the future. Revolutionary hard times and Ukrainian life under the dominion of Bolsheviks is considered in short stories, stories and memories. The main motive, which unites all the works, is hatred to the new authority and a desire to become free from it as soon as possible. Flash prose works contain philosophic generalizations and deep psychological characters’ features; they have modernist tendencies, naturalistic elements and nietzschean motives, i.e. those processes which were typical of the literature at the beginning of the 20th century. Antibolshevist Ukrainians’ position
is substantiated; attention is paid to artistic devices among which there are folk and existential motives, symbols of nature and numbers, personification, comparison, antithesis, humour, repetition etc.