"They Did not Know How to Build Their Own State, so They Were in Someone Else's Hands": Artistic Concept of the Liberation Struggle of the Ukrainian People in the Leonid Poltava Novel "Above the Blue Black Sea".
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2018, Vol 87, Issue 1
Abstract
The peculiarities of the artistic modeling of historical reality of 1917–1920 by Leonid Poltava in the novel "Above the blue Black Sea" are considered in the article, the specificity of the artistic text is also clarified by the researcher. The novel "Above the blue Black Sea" Leonid Poltava is unfairly left out of contemporary literary criticism in the scientific Ukrainian space. The main plot is the events of the Civil War period in Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. Leonid Poltava has systematically analyzed the causes of the failure of the Central Council and its allies; he is sure that they have created the conditions for "soviet" totalitarianism and the embodiments of the Bolsheviks basic principle the devide et impera in life. The author has used two approaches to realizing his plan; they are a research and aesthetic ones; Leonid Poltava has skillfully combined historical facts and literature, science and art. The prevailing place in the large gallery of characters is occupied by historical figures, representatives of various warring camps (Hetman Skoropadskyi, Symon Petliura, Troitskyi, Nestor Makhno, Kutiepov, etc.). It is, of course, determined by the specifics of the genre. In our opinion, all the fictional characters, episodes from their lives are closely linked to the historical specifics of the first decades of the twentieth century. They give the novel a significant artistic value. Leonid Poltava recreated the image of the whole people in the documentary-historical concretization of being through every "non-historical" personality, human destiny, action and moral position. The work is characterized by an objective third-form narrative; such a narrative causes the reader to experience the self-deployment of the narrative, the absence of any biased considerations. In conclusion, Leonid Poltava skillfully recreated the civil war as a historical reality, modeled the political, social, cultural and mental processes of that days in the novel "Above the blue Black Sea". The writer studied its nature in detail, investigating the behavior of the masses as the main creator of history in the turbulent age of 1917-1920. Of course, the author was not a direct witness of these terrible events, but the artistic means reminded compatriots of these liberation burials. Now the work of Leonid Poltava has become extremely relevant, the problems raised by the author are close to modern Ukrainians.
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N. M. Tymoshchuk
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