“THE POET IN A NOVELLA”: PROFESSOR IVAN DENYSIUK’ IDEAS IN MARKO CHEREMSHYNA STUDIES

The paper highlights professor Ivan Denysiuk’s views on the genre and stylistic features of Marko Cheremshyna’s short stories. As the founder of the Lviv genealogical school, Denysiuk managed to avoid the vulgar sociological vocabulary typical of official Soviet literary studies. Instead, he emphasized a significant number of vital aspects regarding the writer’s specific prose and the characteristics of his poetic approach. The individual style demonstrated by the author of “Notches” was comprehended by Denysiuk against the context of the literary era and in relation to other representatives of the aesthetic canon of that time. Thoroughly acquainted with contemporary European theoretical views on the novella genre, the researcher convincingly showed that Marko Cheremshyna’s works are primarily celebrated for their significant poetic qualities, which allow for their classification into genre categories such as lament-novella, ballad-novella, and anti-idyll novella. In addition, the scholar aimed to clarify the functional role of landscapes in the studied works and to explore the nature of interpersonal and creative relationships between Marko Cheremshyna and other writers, who dealt with the Hutsul environment in their oeuvre. Ivan Denysiuk was confident that the author achieved a high artistic effect primarily through high-quality literary photographism, followed by a gradual transformation of vivid visual images into resonant internal polyphony, which significantly enhanced the psychological component even in completely plotless, purely sentimental works. In his literary explorations, Denysiuk succeeded in revealing the unique aesthetic approach and special outlook of early Marko Cheremshyna. During the period of modernist stylistic dominance and popularity, the writer’s methods of implementing ideas in literary works were truly distinctive.