ПРИРОДА СМІХУ У ДИЛОГІЇ П. ЗАГРЕБЕЛЬНОГО «ЛЕВИНЕ СЕРЦЕ» ТА «ВИГНАННЯ З РАЮ»

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the nature of laughter in «whimsical» «The Lion’s Heart» and «Exile fromParadise» novels by P. Zagrebelny. The general scientific method of analysis of theoretical and methodological sources, cultural-historical method, elements of the biographical method, as well as a systematic approach to the analysis of the fiction work were used in the research. The analysis of literary scientific works made it possible to identify the main means of « especially valuable whimsy» in Ukrainian prose, which include laughter, folk fiction, historical color, as well as to determine that the source of humor in the «whimsical» novel is folk laughter culture. It is proved that laughter is a universal life-affirming principle and ideological dominant of the author and characters in P. Zagrebelny’s novels, and the author’s humorous view of the world is deeply rooted in the Ukrainian laughter culture. The statement that laughter in P. Zagrebelny’s novels has all the features of «carnival laughter» (M. Bakhtin), because it is national, universal and ambivalent is especially valuable. The study also emphasizes that the use of irony allows the writer to humorously depict ordinary rural life, to reveal the specifics of human relations and the psychology of the characters. Special attention is focused on the analysis of the image of the author-narrator, who is endowed with a number of individual traits of P. Zagrebelny himself. We note that the image of the author is depicted in a humorous way, which gives grounds to define the dilogy as an «autoparody». Analyzing female images in the text, we note that the writer creates the image of a new, modern self-sufficient woman, who, however, does not lose her feminine appeal. It is determined that the main and secondary characters of the dilogy are depicted in the traditions of folk laughter culture and embody both positive and negative traits of human nature. Also we note that at the linguistic level the realization of the traditions of folk laughter culture in the novels is through the active use of vernacular and colloquial vocabulary, nicknames, proverbs, sayings etc.