Genre-stylistic originality of V. Medvid’s novel-quotes “Kasym-bek”

Васьків, Микола Степанович (2022) Genre-stylistic originality of V. Medvid’s novel-quotes “Kasym-bek” International Aegean Conferences on Social Sciences & Humanities-V: Full Text Books. pp. 1103-1121. ISSN 978-625-7720-76-2

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Abstract

In 1920, the Ukrainian writer Vyacheslav Medvid’ (born 1951), laureate of the National Prize T. Shevchenko, published a short novel Kasim-bek. The “predecessor” of this work was the essay Galley convict and overseer (1994). The plot of the essay, the call for historical reconciliation of Ukrainians and Turks became the basis of the first part of V. Medvid’s novel. But in Kasim-bek the writer significantly expands the range of motieves and problems. His characters rethink the perctption of Eastern, Ottoman, culture, Islam, intercultural relations by Ukrainians. V. Medvid’ actively uses postmodernist techniques in his work, as evidenced primarily by the genre definition – “novel-quote”. The writer constructs the text as a combination of fragments from the Qur’an and interpretatins of the Qur’an, travel notes by J. W. von Goethe, Stendhal, G. Melville, historical research by famous Ukrainian scientists A. Krymsky, M. Hrushevsky, Yu. Mytsyk, etc., and dominated by fragments from Ukrainian Dumas – works of heroic tpic. Much of the fragments are used almost unchanged, but often V. Medvid’ resorted to stylization, especially the stylization of the language of the letters of the XVII century. Also in the novel there is a postmodernist overlap of historical epochs and personalities, real and imagined. The postmodernist form is used in Kasim-bek to express neomodernist content. The characters of the novel reflect on the problems of intercultural tolerance, borrowing useful values from “hostile” cultures, responsibility to future generations, what is real freedom, etc. The main character of the novel Yakymosky in his letters to Bohdan Khmel’nytsky their traces in the present, the need to take into account historical experience in solving today’s problems.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Vyacheslav Medvid’; genre; novel-quote; Turkish culture; Islam.
Subjects:	Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Наукові конференції > Міжнародні
Divisions:	Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет журналістики > Кафедра журналістика та нових медіа
Depositing User:	професор Микола Степанович Васьків
Date Deposited:	13 Dec 2022 18:13
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2022 18:13
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/42607

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