M. Vingranovsky's story "Maniunia" in the context of сhimerical prose

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to determine those features of M. Vingranovsky's artistic style, embodied in prose works, which correspond to the characteristic features of chimerical prose. The object of the research is M. Vingranovsky's story "Maniunia", and the subject of the research is the implementation of characteristic features of chimerical prose in the literary work of the Ukrainian writer. The article highlights the characteristic features of chimerical prose, such as: conventionality of the image, which allows combining different angles of objective depiction of reality from the standpoint of artistic perspective and subjective worldview; mixing of different planes of artistic reality from the point of view of materialistic (which is expressed in the formation of certain objects, processes, situations, etc.) and idealistic (which appears in the form of fictional, imaginary, unknowable, etc.) embodiment; the multi-perspective of the artistic image, which is manifested in the objectification of the worldview of various characters. Special attention in the article is paid to such features of M. Vingranovsky's prose, as philosophicalness, which involve the reflection of internal states as dominant elements of the artistic image; the inner world of the character, who is characterized by spiritual space, sublimity, inner depth, who creates / transforms reality. In the story "Maniunia", the writer creates such a multi- layered artistic world, which organically combines different dimensions of the image (objective and subjective reality, imaginary, invented and fantasized reality) into a single whole. The inner impressions and feelings of the hero are factors in the organization of the plot. The author's perception forms a space in which all images, processes, situations that directly or indirectly fall into his field of vision are transformed. Depending on the essence of the phenomena perceived by the hero of the literary work, the image acquires a grotesque, surreal, ironic, fantastic character.