IDEOLOGICAL AND ARTISTIC DOMINANTS OF YURII LYPA'S CREATIVITY

Abstract

The article analyzes the work of Yurii Lypa through the prism of biographical synergism, in particular, the service to Ukraine as the dominant factor in his life creation and text creation; the main ideological and artistic features of his work are determined.

Synthetic research of Yurii Lypa's work attests: the ideological and artistic dominants of Yurii Lypa's work are clearly determined by his worldview convictions, revealed both in text creation and in life creation. The rootedness of the worldview and aesthetic positions of Yurii Lypa, a poet, prose writer, publicist, translator, dramatist in the "feeling of the Middle Ages" (Ye. Malaniuk), orientation towards the values of European chivalry with its prominent dominants of honor, courage, faithfulness in service, devotion to the highest ideal, to God – these moral imperatives of a strict age were already heard in his first poems, they permeated both the early collections "Lightness" and "Severity" and the works of the later period. The poetic principle of medieval spiritual aristocracy runs through the entire artist's work: "My soul belongs to God, my life – to my country, and honor is already mine." In the artist's prose works (the collection of short stories "Notatnyk" ("The Notebook"), the novel "Cossacks in Moscow"), the image of a medieval knight acquires distinctive features of Ukrainian chivalry – fighters for the statehood of their native land. If the themes, motifs, and images of Yurii Lypa's poetry and dramaturgy are mainly rooted in the Middle Ages, in the Gothic, the historical novel "Cossacks in Moscow" is stylized according to the ancient literary Ukrainian language, revealed the genetic kinship of Lypa's style with the Baroque era. Such stylistic features brought to his work the historical spirit of the heroic past, united Ukrainian literature with the European cultural tradition. Yurii Lypa's views on the past and "future" of the Ukrainian people were distinguished by optimism and faith in the powerful spiritual potential inherent in the mentality of Ukrainians and the integrity of the nation.

Faith in the future of Ukraine, elevation to the level of the ideal of the fighters for statehood, understanding of the genetic unity of Ukrainian culture with the European culture, "participant poetics" – these prominent ideas directly determine the content and poetic features of his work.