THE CONCEPT OF "TEMPLE" THROUGH THE PRISM OF BOHDAN LEPKY'S STORY "THE BELLS"

Abstract

Bohdan Lepky is the writer of an outstanding talent, the author of many works on history. His short story “Bells” stands out in his heritage with its particularly tragic, novelistic accent. The aim of this study is to trace the reflection of ethnophilosophical concept “temple”, which was used by S. Krymskyi to analyse Ukrainian cultural reali- ty (including literary works) as a part of universal triad “Home-Field-Temple”, through the prism of the abovementioned work. This will provide an opportunity to interpret it at a fundamentally new level, which can be applied in the process of studying the author’s heritage at secondary and post-secondary institutions or while writing re- search papers.In the process of doing this research, interdisciplinary and hermeneutic ap- proaches to interpreting the work, archetypal analysis, literary criticism and other generic scholarly methods were extensively used. The major finding of the research lies in the demonstration of possible application of integrative approach along with the use of concepts and categories from various fields of modern humanities studies.Thus, the concept “temple” can be considered as pivotal in a novelistic short story by Bohdan Lepky “Bells”, which is revealed on the level of plot, as well as on the level of images (the image of father Savyshyn).The value of the research lies in the fact that it gives the opportunity for the completely new, non-linear, what might be called “stereoscopic” interpretation and insight into a literary text, in this case the short story “Bells”, which proves the univer- sality and effectiveness of the selected methodology.