Yudkin-Ripun Ihor

Yudkin-Ripun Ihor

a Doctor of Art Studies, a professor, a corresponding member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, a chief research fellow at the Screen, Stage Arts and Culturology Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4616-302X

Abstract

The article is aimed at comparing two dilogies: On the Way to Korinthos (1964) and The Zones (1971) by the Polish writer A. Kuśniewicz (1904–1993) at one side and The Swan Flock (1971) and Green Mills (1976) by the Ukrainian writer V. Zemliak (1923–1977) on the other. Both works look like the recollections and chronicles and deal with the same epoch (the first half of the 20th century) and the neighboring Ukrainian localities (Galicia and Podillia). Besides the form of personal recollections, the narration in the 1st person exactly reflects the authors’ attitude towards the epoch that imparts substantiation for the comparative discussion of the works. One detects obvious revelation of dramatic properties associated with myth-making intentions inherent for the narratives. Although an account on personal biography given in the form of recollections contains no pretext for developing actions’ lines. It is the mystery that imparts dramatic properties to the works. The issue of these properties is arisen as the problem of textual motivation in view of the absence of plot with its macroscopic predicative ties. In particular, the problem of motivation is depicted as the consequence of textual heterogeneity as the result of parcellation inherent to memory.

Respectively mnemonic reasons of textual disjunction are still to be further traced in the spontaneity of events that makes their motivation problematic where wonder replaces reasonable ties of things. The narrator’s memory restores events of the past through their ritualistic meaning as the parts of some thorough actions, and in this sense it is approaching the myth. This procures productive field for the problem of motivation to be solved with the means of aspectology. Such approach enables discovering the priority of preponderantly static aspect in opposite to the aspect of transition from one situation to another as in realistic prose. The prevalence of details presupposes the aspect of singularity where events are given as partial and irretrievable. It entails the prevalence of spontaneous motivation with contingent determination so that the partiality of details turns into the contingency of the world’s image. There arise semantic vagueness and ambivalence, places of indefiniteness (the term of R. Ingarden) those refer to the latent contents as in the dramatic performance. Partiality and contingency result in the necessity of referring the details towards the presupposed entirety as in synecdoche. Accordingly, the problem of fatalism as the primeval source of dramatics is arisen.

Keywords: parcellation, motivation, aspect, singularity, contingency, synecdoche, ambivalence.

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