The historical story of B. Polianych “Seven golden cups”: the divineity of historical memory’s poetics.

Abstract

In the article there have been analyzed the historical memory’s poetics in the story of B. Polianych “Seven golden cups” from the position of general ethic, local, personal levels. There have been considered author’s views as a founder and active participant of the Lviv literary society “Logos”. The author has studied the composition and plot of the work. So, compositionally it consists of twelve parts. In every part the author depicts the solution of Ukrainians’ political questions after defeat of Ukrainian-Swedish troops near Poltava. That’s why the image of a dream state of Ukrainians consists of numerous dialogues, military, church and public leaders. According to it there are two plot lines – state, religious.There have been defined memory places – Hamburg, Lviv, Rome where the important events for Ukrainian people took place. 1 Bogdanova Maryna Mykolayivna is Associate Professor (Ph.D.) of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies at Berdyansk State Pedagogical University. The main direction of scientific activity is historical prose, the phenomenon of memory in the historical prose of writers of the Ukrainian diaspora in the second half of the twentieth century. 2 So, one of the geographic memory places of the story is Hamburg, where on the Japan ship the vice graph Chevalier de Meson Ruzh meets with the leader of military government of Japan – Great Shogun Tokugawa. In Hamburg the fate of Ukraine is decided. The next geographical memory place is Lviv, the Sent jour mountain, where Atanasii Sheptytskyi in the dialogue with Fedir Sheptytskyi discus Ukrainian problems. Rome is presented as a geographical, cultural and religious memory place, which is associated with Catholic Church. The traumatic memory place – Baturyn – appears from Ostapenko’s memories, in which one by one came crippled images of Ukrainians.

Keywords

• historical memory
• traumetic memory
• identity
• historical novella
• poetics