THE IDEA OF THE SYNTHESIS OF ARTISTIC STYLES AS A LITERARY AND AESTHETIC PROBLEM IN MUR: NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN VECTORS

Abstract

Perfect multi-genre creativity – poetry, prose, drama, lyrical epic, literary criticism) – Ukrainian writers-emigrants of the MUR period (Ivan Bagryany, Vasyl Barka, Dokia Humenna, Yuriy Kosach, Todos Osmachka, Viktor Petrov-Domontovych, Ulas Samchuk, Yuriy Sherekh and others) was characterized by an effort to bring Ukrainian literature closer to the best examples of the world scale, their ideas echoed the contemporary views of European masters of the word. Having found themselves in the DP camps, the émigré writers realized that they faced an urgent need not only to consolidate progressive Ukrainianism in exile, to preserve the Ukrainian literary heritage, national, creative and authorial self-identity, and to acquaint European neighbors with its best examples, but also on the basis of their own artistic attempts to represent the world's innovative ideas or even a whole artistic «metatext», alternative to the sociologically engaged «mainland» literature of the time. To present such a layer of literature that would reflect genre-thematic diversity, historiosophical worldview, passionate and mental dimensions of Ukrainianness, multi-problems, objectivity of the image of totalitarian reality, true artistic observation of past eras, modern trends - philosophy (existentialism, vitalism), intellectualism, stylistic versatility and multidirectionality, etc. Their creative heritage, being an absolutely unique and original cultural phenomenon in exile, not only filled the gap, but also significantly renewed the Ukrainian literary and artistic paradigm of the 20th century, showing consonance with the needs of modernization of national and European literary consciousness, and, undoubtedly, currently requires a long-term systematic scientific research and understanding. This determines the relevance and originality of our scientific article.

The aim is to comprehensively analyze the worldview, philosophical, artistic-aesthetic, literary-critical views of the leading representatives of the MUR (U. Samchuk, Yu. Sherekh, I. Kosteckyi, Yu. Kosach) on the national and European trajectory of the development of Ukrainian literature of the 20th century through the prism of the category «artistic style», and more precisely, the MUR՚s apology for the synthesis of styles as a prerequisite for the modernization of literary life in exile and the aesthetic integration of Ukrainian literature into the world literary process.