The problem of «the author-hero» in the context model structuring author's consciousness («Sorrowful Symphony» by Yuriy Kosach).

Abstract

The article deals with the peculiarities of the national identity problem in artistic works by Yuriy Kosach of DP period. Namely, the attention is paid to the mutual hierarchy of historical memory and historical consciousness, their role of consolidation in Ukrainian national identity in emigration. In the basis of analysis there are mythological tendency «hero–antihero», complex of memory and author’s strategies for dealing with territorial and political. It is noted that the image of the hero who acts as a figurative picture and the project of the author's imaginary personality is the form of the author's identity in the creative activity and identity of the reader in the process of recept. Yuriy Kosach didn’t try to recreate the biographical reality of the life of the artist. Likely playwright (consciously or unconsciously) designed to create their own "I", its own identity crisis, their internal and external frustratory. The author tried to look sideways to the problems faced with in exile, in order not to get lost and not lose their own "I" somewhere in the next camp or country.