MEMORIES ABOUT UKRAINE IN THE PROSE OF M. ARKAS III
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2018, Vol 316, Issue 304
Abstract
The author analyzes the prose heritage of Mykola Arkas III, who grew up and was formed in Mykolaiv region. His national and biographical roots are mentioned. M. Arkas Jr in his Povist pro nash step shyrokodolyi (The Tale of Our Broad Steppe), which was published in 1975–1978 in the Ukrainian political, social, scientific and literature magazine Liberation Path in London, depicted not only the memories about Ukraine in the pictures of his childhood and adolescence, but also created a mosaic canvas on the history of the Southern Black Sea region against the background of the entire history of Ukraine, emphasizing folk culture and everyday life, involving into these pictures his knowledge of natural sciences, customs and myths of the native land. Like most emigrant writers, he interprets the historical past of his nation in the context of European history. The image of ancient Ukraine with its natural resources and culture customs occupies a leading place in Povist pro nash step shyrokodolyi. One of the leading motifs of Povist pro nash step shyrokodolyi and of the lyrical digression, in particular, is nostalgia for the lost "paradise" – the native home and inability to return to his homeland during his lifetime. A journey within the estate of the ancestors on the banks of the Southern Bug, to the Black Sea, on the expanses of the Bug steppes is used by the author to present his love of his native land and its people. At the same time, M. Arkas tried to appeal to the contemporary to him young Ukrainians of the 60–70‟s of the twentieth century and believed full-heartedly in the possibility to return Ukraine its freedom and independence, for which Mykola Arkas III was fighting by weapons and the word.
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V. M. Russova
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