BOHDAN LEPKOVICH'S AUTHOR'S GENEOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND GENRE TRADITIONS IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The article focuses on the systemic understanding of the artist’s creativity and the category of author’s consciousness of the creator as a powerful and sole source of creative act. Literary studies have long been interested in manifestations of the author in an artwork. In the works of Ivan Franko, O. Biletsky and M. Kodak it was traced how aesthetic and artistic tastes, philosophical and aesthetic views, ideological orientations in the whole of the writer or the theorist of literature were developed.We take into account the active creative work of B. Lepky as a prose writter, university teacher and cultural and public figure, organically linked with national environments of Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany. And in this passage we analyze how the most characteristic of his individual aesthetic consciousness was textured by himself, in which certain impulses were echoed that came to him in a different way.The research outlines the problem of author’s subjective qualification of his own work with his genre outline.We note that a more in-depth study requires the question of the ratio of subjective (author) and general (theoretical) views on the definition of the genre.