Традиции Мишеля де Монтеня в современной украинской эссеистике

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying of M. Montaigne’s tradition in modern Ukrainian essays. New wave of interest towards humanistic ideas of the French philosopher is highlighted in modern literature. Montaigne’s author’s “self”, which became the basis for the formation of works belonging to a new type (“content of my book is me”) finds its active development in modern Ukrainian literary essays, in particular, in essay compilations of I. Andrusyak, Y. Andrukhovich, A. Boychenko, A. Bondar, I. Bondar‑Tereshchenko, C. Grabar, V. Gabor, L. Deresh, A. Dnestrovoy, S. Zhadan, Y. Izdryk, O. Zabuzhko, V. Karpiuk, Y. Kononenko, I. Luchuk, B. Matiyash, V. Mahno, V. Melnyk, K. Moskalets, G. Pagutyak, S. Pyrkalo, T. Prokhasko, S. Protsyuk, M. Ryabchuk, I. Tsyperdyuk, L. Ushkalova and other authors. Usage of untypical details, original turns of thought, which are shown at an unexpected angle of the “author’s vision”, proneness to dialogue, raised proactivity, high level of competence, large thesaurus, perfect experience of operating text information, free combination of essay compilations – it is not even a full list of Montaigne’s techniques that are actively used in modern Ukrainian essays. In the article there is an emphasis on the spiritual experience of personality, described with words, one’s indispensable moment of spiritual self‑determination, important and interesting for the addressee. In essays from the past and modern times as a form of philosophical reflection, culture and history become spiritual entity of a person, because in spontaneous combination of culture and history, the author becomes more mature as an artistic and spiritual individuality able to create something new in spirit culture by using its own ideas of a person as “the highest point of view”.