The flash fiction of Ye. Hutsalo in examination of literary critics
Abstract
The article discovers scientific and critical researches devoted to flash fiction of Ye. Hutsalo. The review of scientific investigation allowed finding out that author`s heritage has been in the focus of literary criticism for many years. However, depending on the political and ideological directives, an emphasis of the study of his prose was changeable. Such literary critics as V. Andrienko, Yu. Badzio, L. Bakhaeva speak lightly of Ye. Hutsalo creativity, criticizing him for retreating from the socialist canon. Truth be told, a modern scholar G. Sivokin undermined the views of these critics on the associativity of the author`s artistic work («Alone with Nature»). The scientist notes that the prose writer, in addition to «traditional» industrial problems, examined general humanistic problems. V. Andrienko and L. Bakhaeva, analyzing the composition plot, indicate the «compositional monotony» of Ye. Hutsalo creative works. [2, с. 146—147], the plot weakening and the «amorphousness of the author's idea» [4, с. 175]
Most researchers (E. Adelheim, O. Bulbachynska, I. Dziuba, V. Donchyk, I. Hlotova, G. Kalantaievska, N. Navrotska, N. Naumenko, O. Povoroznyk [13], O. Podlisetska [14], O. Polischuk [17], O. Chepurna [21], etc.) analyze genre, poetical, problem-style features of the writer's prose. They emphasize the intermediaries of prose, author immersion in existential depths, and discrepancy between «internal» and «external» in the artistic world of Y. Hutsalo. O. Podlisetska and N. Polokhova draw attention to writer`s appeal to the poetics of modernism by synthesizing elements of «psychology and external manifestations of being, fact and reflection (thoughts, memories, delusions), philosophical self-depressions and visible pictures of the landscape» [16, с. 415]. Despite the existence of scientific studies of the Soviet and contemporary periods of Ye. Hutsalo flash fiction study, a holistic analysis of his fiction was not accomplished.
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