Man and World in O. Honchar’s “Diaries”: Biographical Dimension

Abstract

This article is about a the world picture and a man in it, which appears in the recipient imagination under the influence of O. Honchar’s diary. The question of writer’s life and creativity is considered. Diariush is interpreted as a kind of autobiographical genre. It is said that the daily fixing manifestations of life determines author dual role / narrator: he confesses himself and shows what is happening around him and with others. Special relationship between addressee (narrator) – the recipient (beneficiary): on the one hand, the receiver (beneficiere) – it is the sender itself, and the second – the future recipient, are examined. The specific structure of the text is characterized. The forms and ways of expressing paradigmatic relations own / other are defined. It is confirmed that human concept in O. Honchar is formed by not only direct but indirect way. It is given the list of details such as self-consciousness of mankind, man ... realized his mission, was the spiritual became …force of life...The techniques of literary skills to create portraits that make up the gallery of real characters of the epoch (writers, scientists, politicians, peasants, soldiers, and others) are revealed. It is emphasized that Honchar’s notes about Holodomor (famine) and other forbidden topics first, pay attention to the different views of their vision; second, these notes in the subtext hidden forced silence which shows typological situation of many artists. It is proved that in O. Honchar’s diaries writer biography is both a biography of a generation that preceded the sixties and biography of Ukrainian creative intelligentsia.