Poetics of the novel «Jeanne The Battalioner» by Geo Shkurupiy.

Abstract

The article analyzes the poetics of the novel «Jeanne The Battalioner» by Geo Shkurupiy. It was found that the writer bases his writing on the Faustian example of heroic, intellectual, and logistical ethics which denies fate and asserts causality, and expresses the will to infinity, infinite freedom that answers the call of the historical moment and, it requires overcoming the foreground of life. Soulless nature of war is revealed in the images of women in war: a woman appears first as "girlfriend", a conestant of debauchery, but not a warrior. Therefore, the characters’ work not only simulate certain social character of his time, but also the portrait of the era «of civil war». The game principal is being dominant in the novel and paradox and irony play an important role. Symbolic levels novel is full of as cultural and historical allusions (Jeanne as Joan of Arc, faustianity, Schpenhler’s understanding of Christianity) and general cultural mythological codes (image of bridge as an attempt of building the unity of the spiritual worlds of Stephen and Joan). It was determined that the novel by G. Shkurupiy combines two vectors of transforming Ukraine: womanhood (Ukraine embodied in the image of Joan of Arc, who dreams of heroic deeds and tries to look into the future) and socialism (the image-symbol of socialist student Stephen Boyko). Moving of story plot desacralize both in an erotic context that neutralizes the high pathos of symbols.