Plot arrangement of the novel «The March of Youth» by Vitaly Bender.

Abstract

The article provides plot analysis of the text of the novel by the Ukrainian writer-emigrant Vitaly Bender “The March of Youth” in accordance with the system of plot development of a literary text. The plot is understood by the author as the actual side of the narrative, as events, actions, states in their causal-chronological order. Thus, the plot differs from the story in which these elements are assembled and formed by the author on the basis of the regularities that he observes in the development of the phenomena depicted. It is a question of the traditional model of the fable organization of a literary work. The initial phase in this system is the phase of isolation. At this stage, the spatial and temporal characteristics of the work, its key actors, are singled out. The second phase - the phase of partnership – Is manifested in the novel at different stages in the development of its plot. It is realized through the establishment of new intersubject connections, in particular, the acquisition by the hero of “helpers” or “wreckers”. The transition to the liminal stage symbolizes the beginning of a direct confrontation with death. The phase of transformation is a complex of spiritual changes of the main characters after the death test. Vitaly Bender consistently identifies the stages of isolation, establishing partnership, ordeal, transfiguration. At each of these stages, new challenges arise in front of the heroes of the novel, connected with the search for their own place in life. Using the classical scenarios during the study of the literary heritage of the Ukrainian diaspora allows fully disclosing not only their human pathos and humanistic orientation but also ideological and artistic and national originality.