Біблійно-міфологічні парадигми в романі-епопеї Листя землі В. Дрозда

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the analysis of the contemporary work of the Ukrainian writer V. Drozd in the perspective of biblical and mythological poetry. The author’s attention is focused on biblical and mythological “codes”, which might be indirectly considered as motifs of “Being”, “Judah”, “Cain and Abel”, “Prophet”, “Jesus Chriest”. These codes are important tools of the underlying understanding of being and artistic model of interconnections between the human and the world. The gist of each one is revealed through the system of artistic details (“thirty silver coins”, looks and heroes’ actions), transformed characters (Judah, Cain and Abel, biblical prophets), motifs (world and human creation, betrayal, fratricide, prophecy), directed by allusions to the biblical plots, which expand due to mythological fables. A complicated interaction of their semantic fields creates the dialectical unity of the plot. While interpreting biblical characters the author represents them as poly-semantic symbols, which is why they are perceived in their ontological plurality.