Oleksandr Dovzhenko in projections Ukrainian Soviet literature

Abstract

The extraordinary talent of O. Dovzhenko - the innovator both in cinematography and prose, the founder of synthetic intermedial genre of "film news," the writer and the scriptwriter of the world level did not fit in a cookie of the border of the dominant "socialist realism," nor the communist doctrines to which he often appealed, contradicted the principles of the totalitarian regime to which he was forced to adapt, which could not but affect on his psychotype. The split of O. Dovzhenko's consciousness. The split of Dovzhenko's consciousness between communist ideology and national identity corresponded to the party concept of literature "socialist in content, national in form." Realizing its limitations, O. Dovzhenko proposed an artificial idea of "diversity of trends," which was picked up by L. Novychenko and other literary critics, implemented by apologists of "socialist realism." Being in the epicenter of literary and artistic life, having considerable authority, the artist with his views and creativity not only influenced Ukrainian Soviet literature (art), but also determined its ambivalent essence, the prospect of development.