Dominants of Maksym Rylsky's prose

Abstract

Background. Maksym Rylskyi is known to the general public primarily due to his poetic heritage. Literary and art critics deserve high praise for his popular science studies, translators immerse themselves in unsurpassed examples from different languages, theoretical and practical materials. However, prose creativity remains out of focus. A small number of artistic texts are truly interesting not only due to their stylistic synthesis and content, authorial discoveries and expressive and figurative means, but also important for understanding the artist's worldview orientations, in the study of the peculiarities of idiostyle.

Methods. The article uses philological, biographical and intertextual methods of literary research.

The results. Maksym Rylskyi's fiction touches on topical and timeless themes. The author uses thoughtful dedications and intertextual interludes, conjecture and fiction, reflections and description, apt artistic means and indicative titles that help reveal the characters' personalities and motivations, speed up or slow down the tempo of the narrative or story, show the spectrum from humor to sarcasm, from comedy to drama and tragedy, evoke associations in recipients thanks to multi-level and polysemantic symbols, express the palette of sensations and feelings, expand or narrow the chronotope, emphasize the leitmotif and subtextual dominants of the work, and encourage the reader to reflect and self-discovery without moralizing.

Conclusions. Maksym Rylskyi is a talented prose writer who revealed in small epic forms the specifics of an individual style, showed himself, his pains, doubts, experiences, joys, moments of happiness and despair, presented a vision of existence and the roles of an individual who influences or is subordinated to the environment, which later turns into a symbolic vision of society and the world. The writer's prose works contain many autobiographical details, memories and confessions, which make up a holistic confession-polylogue with the recipients.