ESSAY WRITING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE COLLECTION OF ESSAYS “25 ESE PRO HOLOVNE”)

Abstract

The article comprehends and substantiates the phenomena of essayistic writing in the context of modern humanities, in particular the literary process from antiquity to the present, on the example of the collection of essays “25 Essays on the Main”. The article is devoted to the scientific comprehension of the concept of the essay as a literary work and an independent genre, which, despite being controversial in traditional literary studies, claims to be self-sufficient. The article represents various trends and directions of literary and critical comprehension of the issue. First of all, it refers to the scientific positions presented in the works of O. Huk, T. Konyeva, N. Ivanova, K. Silman, S. Shebelist, and T. Shevchenko. Among the main issues raised in the article are the role and place, origin, and poetological features of essayism. The article states that essayistic writing has repeatedly led to a rethinking of traditional ideas about artistic form and content, representing the natural interest of Ukrainian literature, which was subsequently represented in the problems, artistic properties of the genre, and the desire to make adjustments to the stylistic paradigm. Thus, the essay, due to the boundary nature of its form, impresses with its diversity and polythematicity, which has led to a number of features that represent the analyzed genre: logical presentation of thoughts; careful attitude to the artistic form; expression of a new, subjective judgment about something (in the foreground – the subjectivity of the author’s personality); imagery, aphorism, use of fresh metaphors, new poetic images; conversational intonation and vocabulary; diverse thematic focus (according to S. Shebelist). Shebelist). On the basis of the texts of the collection “25 Essays on the Main”, the theoretical foundations of the essay, its features and key features are analyzed. Among the texts of the collection, the essays by T. Prokhasko “Bahato v malomu”, Ya. Dovhan “Meni trynadtsiatyi mynalo”, S. Zhadan “Bahato v malomu”, L. Belei “Shcho dlia mene vazhlyvo” were singled out and comprehended in terms of compliance with theoretical features (according to S. Shebelist), and a contextual review of the works by T. Voznyak, K. Babkina, V. Yeshkilev, etc. was carried out.