Молитва як фрагмент жанру в сучасному українському ліро‑епосі

Abstract

Modern Ukrainian novels in verses that are actively included in the cultural space are marked by the violation of urgent problems, the innovation of genre modifications, and the introduction of inserted genres into the text. Igor Pavlyuk’s novel‑meditation Palomnyk (2018), Oles’ Omelchenko’s historical‑philosophical and fiction novel‑essay in poems Divogray (2017) are selected for analysis which referred to the close connection with the folklore and ethnic traditions, contain poetic combinations, structural features of the genre such as prayer, which serves to express the poets worldview and is a sign of spirituality and piety of the Ukrainian people. The authors of the novels in the poems introduce confessional inclusions in the texts with attachment to the religious canon, and confession, prayer is one of the forms of repentance and revival of the essence of the human soul. In the preface “Prayer before confession” of the novel Palomnyk it is noted that the novel was created in a period of changing worldview: from metaphysical to religious, and its genre definition encourages the recipient to understand the problems of ontological, existential nature with philosophical generalizations: the author meditates with his soul, the external world and God. The events of the novel Divogray, according to the genre definition, take place in many areas: BC, Middle Ages, 17th century, present and distant future of 5000 simultaneously in three Galaxies, it is complicated by multi‑genre inserts that acquire contextual content, as in the names of chapters (“Amulet of the Order of Force”, “Eternal to God”, “I Love”, “Confession of the Amazon”), and canonical and authorial prayers. The work calls for the idealization of human relations through a direct appeal to God at the socio‑ethical level, interprets outstanding events, archaic strata of the beliefs of the Ukrainian people as their magical and spiritual strength, reproduces layers of Ukrainian historical and cultural memory.