scholarly journals “A WRITER — A NERVE CELL OF THE NATION”: SPECIFICITY OF THE AUTHOR’S NATIONAL SELF-IDENTITY IN THE “DIARIES” OF OLES GONCHAR

Author(s):  
Volodymyr Kuzmenko

The article is devoted to researching of “Diaries” written by Oles Gonchar through the prism of the author’s national self-identity. The first diary entry is dated June, 1943 and the last entry dated July, 1995. The Ukrainian national features are found out to be revealing in a diary prose of Oles Gonchar both at the content and the form levels through the system of interrelated dominants; the signs of these specific dominants can be traced in the reflection of its characteristics in the writer’s chronological notes. The author of the paper has conducted an analysis of the main motives revealed in the diary entries being realized in the image palette, archetypes, place names — all these are combined with ethnic specificity. The author summarizes the writer’s ideological viewsthat identifiedthe genesis of popular perception of reality incorporating sincere apologetics of socialism in prewar time, romantic passion (enthusiasm) for European revolutionary ideas throughout losses, tragedies, frustrations and failures of war, gradual awareness of the essence of the Soviet power, Stalin’s bloody crimes against his own peopleas well as the genuine admiration for a short “Khrushchev Thaw” elimination of which in Brezhnev “stagnation period” convinced Gonchar in the necessity of democratization of society. The results of the conducted research determinesome factorssuch as: the Chernobyl disaster, degeneration of national spirituality, displacement of the Ukrainian language on the margins of being — all these key factorsmade Gonchar a leader of spiritual revival of Ukraine.

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liuqin Yang ◽  
Russell Johnson ◽  
Xichao Zhang ◽  
Paul Spector

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ramsey ◽  
Russell E. Johnson ◽  
James A. Tan

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah-Hanh Dung Nguyen ◽  
Smriti Shivpuri ◽  
Kari M. Langset ◽  
Ann Marie Ryan

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